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who. for generations millions of indonesians have depended on the cheap to run river but today the river is poisoning the. textile factories that supply some of the biggest fashion brands are using it to dump talk of the chemicals. and steve on this episode of one of one east we investigate the human cost of the world's most polluted river. on the river fisherman like rudy no longer catch fish they catch plastic. but i had a beginning to think god a god. thing. but the i'll get one

last look us up on the us. a. lump will kill all of the. indonesian rivers dump two hundred thousand tonnes of plastic into the sea each year. but for the millions that live along the river there's something worse than plastic toxic 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 it's imagine what mandy. the case how you would i'm a lot of my and i'm now. another man

i'm. sure his two children are always sick. she blames the river hwang god these hamas. will see. it as evil awful and. now. a pipe. in logo to. keep. each other good. today the children have a doctor's appointment. noor 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. more one will i will muscle among the. people betty. the time that i had to go get the good that i do monday night the m b i and every alley. so what could be making them sick. did me risk one day 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 a mother just was on them but i dubbed them to. russia. the number but human would

go beyond. the one of them to get me on the good you got to be the brightest not on the full. amount of. i mean. the imagery that you bring up i understood it better. than the name and. the most upon us. going to. 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 text group. gives tech produces mainly polyester fabric a synthetic material that requires a lot of chemicals. in these buildings one thousand machines operate twenty four hours a day seven days a week. the factory produces three million liters a 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.

the fifth month. or i thought that the floods the size. fifty fame a better way and kind. that lang and then that is i don't think smith that it would come a permit to going to the boys like to thank. the good. friend really. not every day. only five measurements a day international standards require at least thirty one. yes is it true. i don't think so. but if it's not come home for most people think i'm ok i still need to be feel that it's on the day but i meant it's ok. you can pass but part of

me fishhook on zero is what the tax i think i put in and if i don't get it then 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 gets taxed did not want to show what. we take to leaders for now and since. along the river all rights feel. this is congress's

lair. little thing with the. i believe i will show for you mark i'm going to be nothing but a new. so that's my next collie that it's been a thorn in my neck. to see it because it's a symbol of poverty in oregon yeah michelin's out. in the middle. so. it's. only it. but the unit. and i'm around not. a little program on. how can i only lie in 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. we take our samples of rice and water to be institute of the home of university. writes professor soon already runs the only environmental studies lib oratory in the region up trumps inspection one tree this is a show for heavy with. measurement this is. mostly chemical chemical as part of mentors due to symbols to be canonized as seen.

from the rise. and there are some so this is. it isn't water if you. think it this is the rose from this word here this is the water. from the desert through from the waste water. i come back you know we are going to get out i continued and to get here to see you again. while we wait for the test results we arranged to meet some of the women and children from the village near the factories. we wanted to analyze their hair to better understand which pollutants they are exposed to. to advise us we've heard price athens our 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. join. me in order not. to do a lot. more than sort of just keep going. no not for much time you are going to come up. with. the final good. is going to. get. assistance nobody's i'm. going to continue. to take care from ten children aged

from twelve months to fourteen years. we send them straight to professor appen cellar in luxembourg. as we are leaving the village we receive a call from environmental activists alerting us to night time we stop them from the fact. three. parts ok. it's part of the pennies a group one of the largest sub contractors 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 no. one. in this. world. 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. from chromium content and 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 per kilogram where the standard only zero point. zero one times they're.

going to. lead this very dangerous. lead will disturb our nervous system central of any process so. if the children exposed to the lead then they will have like intellectual disability 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. usually. it. could be different. it's dark but. does a lot. not believe that she did does it mean to leave me alone who could do or better. i will of course are sure. to call them by. the know of your not.

just for the betterment of the whole i do think you have not to release all of the so long is it long john the one who she is pushing with the new the c n n. o. o o i'm going to 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 see if 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 subcontractors 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 in the nation if i would like my sis in the . morning. looking at. her. and you know the world is not perfect 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 the change towards a truly sustainable fashion industry. they claim independent audit of companies like. there are no levels that exceeded limits in their wastewater. also responded saying. that. they would investigate further with independent experts. two hundred fifty to. work with 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. e.g. is there representative. call it. or go utilization or so money. and romance is good for business. do you think the word that comes out when you have the results here do you think it can be used for drinking for irrigation you think it can be used within from us we present him our analysis of rice and water which showed the presence of industrial pollutants of textile factories including hormonal 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 forget it i guess that. even if you saw the all the problems we were not just for your country for the environment when you see that we do not only. when you talk to them but in them and then at the orders and the clothes simple so the grounds of the real power yes but the ban and there's still money and clothes. and then it is. as a father what does that make you feel to see their children living around factories sometimes like this if so many of polish and i think maybe next fifteen years we have no more. but this man you know well i'm ecstatic. and that's. the fifth thing in the i know.

of a certain oh you're cool oh you're 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 thing i will ask for what purpose i'm going to go to the sample and. come from this number we're going to. meet. and you also know if you. like.

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 this kit was done does on all see this issue of the dolphins and as you know it's. not only. just. what you know. it's. got to go to. the go sound going to bond off in those tunnels he does he says it's easier than others he thinks deportation just redeposit. it all took siege so he could difficult. for just accept. that he should make it go through a box they need to start the next stage and then finish it cannot talk.

to me mobile demand textile production in indonesia is expected to increase by seventy five percent by twenty thirty. major clothing brands can no longer look away. too many victims are paid a heavy price. once a strategy of war now the conflict is long over but the abductions continue one on

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