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for generations millions of indonesians have depended on the chip to run river but today the river is poisoned. textile factories that supplies some of the biggest fashion brands are using it to dump talks to chemicals. and steve on this episode a one on one east we investigate the human cost of the world's most polluted river . on the chittering river fisherman like rudy no longer catch fish big catch cluster . but i am beginning to figure out a god. but the i hate although us look us up our last. a. a lot will kill all the.

indonesian rivers dump two hundred thousand tons of plastic into the sea each year . but for the millions that live along the river there's something worse than plastic talks chemicals. noor has always lived here. every morning she goes to the world which is fed by the children. that is so what if endings how much of a lag weapon and be. the case how you would i'm. glad of that i have and i'm now if i'm. another man i'm. sure is two children are always sick. she blames the river.

will see. it as evil awful and. now. a pipe. that would mean. that in no go. shall keep. each other. today the children have a doctor's appointment. nur takes them twice a month you do her eldest son calls as soon as he finishes his medicine. about the heidi. oh oh oh but the.

amount of money you tell me one will all muscle on one. side of the pool betty. the guy said to go get the good that i do monday night the m b i and every alley. so what could be making them sick. denny responded runs the only environmental group in the region. for seventeen years he has been surveying the chitral in search of evidence of pollution by the textile industry. because i'm not going to be the mother just was on them but i don't judge them but only the pros on russia. dump a bunch of money would go on but what about joe the want to come to get me on the computer to read the bill and just knock on the bull. about how to. i mean. on the

imagery that you bring up i understood it better. than the number. that i pick up the most upon us. three quarters of what is produced along the river is sent abroad mainly to be u.s. and europe. one of the largest exporters in the country is the kids text group. tech produces mainly polyester fabric a synthetic material that requires

a lot of chemicals. in these buildings one thousand the sheens operate twenty four hours a day seven days a week. the factory produces million liters of fabric a month. each of these machines process is the fibers with water filled with chemicals. forty liters of water for every t. shirt. the waste water then flows to the settling tanks. on the fifth. fifth they meet that away and hide. meet the blank and then the data is out thanks

mate that it will become a form of food going to the boys like to thank. the good. many really. not every day. only five measurements a day international standards require at least thirty one. the day. yes for example. i don't think so. but if it's not come home for you maybe don't think i'm ok still need to be feel that it's on the day but i meant it's ok. you can pass but for me fish upon throw is what the tax i think i put in if i don't get it see them good. to find out what the waste water from this global textile

company contains and we head to the factories one around. thirty meters away and the water is covered with a film of white foam. if. this is what his stance did not want to show once. we take two leaders for now and since. along the river all right sphere. this is congress's lair.

little thing with the. other will show for it much i'm going to be nothing but a new. so that's my next collie that's been a thing about a. little to it because it's a symbol of poverty and in oregon yeah. it's in the middle. so. it's. only it. but the unit. and i'm around that. some. of the no progress. can i only minding his crop is surrounded by factories. the water that you were gave his rice field is purple and frog.

he agrees to let us test his rights. as. we take our samples of rice and water to be instituted because of university. writes professor soon already runs the only environmental studies lib oratory in the region up trumps inspector military this is a show for heavy with. measurement this is. mostly chemical chemical as part of mentors tell you this isn't going to be canonized as she sees. it. from the rise rice bill and it is and so this is.

it isn't water. it is this is the runs from this water here this is the water. from the desert through from the way splitter. i come back you know we are going to get out i continued and to get here to see you thank you michael. while we wait for the test results we arranged to meet some of the women and children from the village near the factories. we want to analyze their hair to better understand which pollutants they are exposed to. to advise us we've heard the price athens are on the line. more for. he is the person to speak to in europe when it comes to researching pollutants with care samples and pens the human bio monitoring unit at the luxembourg health

institute. on joint. decided you're you know not national shortage. i think you should. be doing all the. stuff you mention no not so much trying to be are you. going to come up. with. the final get. is going to. get. the system but isn't this. just going to continue. to take care from ten children aged from twelve months to fourteen years.

we send them straight to professor athens our in luxembourg. as we are leaving the village we receive a call from environmental activists alerting us to night time we stop them from a fact. three. parts ok. it's part of the pennies a group one of the largest subcontractors in the indonesian textile industry. that we're going to. so what is this. about a. year. old. close to the water it smells so toxic we need mess.

thank you. thank you thank. you for that. you don't know that oh. well. it will. ok. ok it is well. thank you so much thank you. should. we send these samples to a lib or tory in france that specializes in environmental study.

in the meantime dr sonority has finished his analysis of the waste water and writes he can't believe what he found he wants to see the rice fields form so one thing. or. chromium content by the plants we found very high twenty. eight point zero four milligrams because we found. a lead. concentration on the body plans is much higher than. the limits. on twenty nine point zero three maybe milligram or a kilogram where the standard only zero point. zero zero one times they're. going to. lead this very dangerous.

lead will disturb our nervous system central of any process so. children exposed to lead then they will have like intellectual disabilities and. worse. i believe that the men. from the. textile industries. this rice the growth along which is sold throughout indonesia. he also found the water from the good steaks parent tree had lead levels one point five times the international limits for industrial waste water. there is more bad news when we receive the results for the pan asia factory where we took the water samples at night and. at the home of environmental activist danny responding we contact professor bernard. the french chemist who analyzed the

pan asia waste water. it. could be different. it's dark but. does a lot. not believe that she did meet clearly on the good day or ben. i will of course assured. by. the known of your not. just to the detriment of the. jew that you have not to release all of the so long does it belong john the one who she is pushing

with the new the c n n. o. o o what if you have or could just not. this issue. isn't. really a little closer each super to this issue. we want to know what major clothing brands do the polluting factories supplying. we sift through dozens of globes. their labels show which ones are sourced from indonesia. we find a baby gap there just made in indonesia. h n m sweater made in indonesia. adidas made in indonesia. we then get the lists of indonesian sub contractors

from these big brands. the factories from which we took the waste water appear on the lists including. the company is registered as one of his sub contractors it also works with other brands like unicorn. it was in the pan asia water that we found high levels of non ill for a powerful hormone disruptor. the guest x. plant and its waste with high lead levels is also subcontracted by the unique lobe rare. h n m has an office in the indonesian capital jakarta. and changes from and she. began posting. yeah thank you. to the

director of asian m indonesia agrees to see us and so we made some promises. interesting specially that. the. ocean. and you know that. this is of course not what we would like to see. three weeks after this interview. writes to us saying. we are sincerely concerned by the subject of your report. as the scale and ambition to lead to change towards a truly sustainable fashion industry. they claim. of companies. that exceeded limits in

their wastewater. also responded saying. they would investigate. independent experts. two hundred fifty two. indonesian subcontractors who dumped waste water into. the big fashion groups here are all gathered in the same association. the textile industry lobby in indonesia. a key sector with a twelve billion dollar turnover. is their representative.

well you have the results here do you think it can be used for drinking for irrigation we think it can be used from use we present him our analysis of rice and water which show the presence of industrial pollutants of textile factories including power model disruptors and neural toxic or carcinogen make molecules would you drink this water this is this comes from an asia for this is one of your members we do this whether you use it for you irrigation if i only use that. even if you sold all of the problems we do not just for your country we're looking for the environment when you see that we do not. when you talk

a little bit in them and then at the orders and the both of those simple so the grounds of the real power yes but the blame and there's still money and clothes . and then you miss. what does that make you feel just today children living around factories something like this if so many of us and i think maybe next fifty years we have no more. but this man you know bill i'm ecstatic. and that's. the fifth thing of the i know. of a certain oh you're cool oh you following us thank you for taking some time thinking at the ministry of environment the person in charge of pollution control agrees to meet us because he reads our analysis and seems surprised.

by the third or consists of i would. say this is good information. i think i will ask for what purpose and on the total. and. this number we are going to. meet. and we also know if you. live in dusty. that would be good news but it may be too late for the residents along the river. professor appenzeller from the luxembourg health institute has the results of the hair analysis to school with. us on the see this issue of the dots on the news you

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