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our journey begins in the mountains of the island of java. at the foot of the wyoming volcano there is a lick. the cradle of the shootout room river. the bhakti are a jogger for a university in the region knows this place well. i mean

when you see tucci sonti is the name of the sacred lake at the beginning of the cheeto room. if we walk a little further i'll show you the real source where the bubbles come out of the ground. so this is how you see the water here is very pure clean enough to wash your face with. it will be done he will know it's more than just home for me i feel at peace here. the water is still so clean legend says it's the water of youth. i don't know but she taught him this is so important for indonesia it's very very important he believes that thanks to the dams the river generates enough electricity for the islands of java and bali you know what a. body gonna it's a source of drinking water and used for face breeding and for agriculture and. well

once 3000000 people live along the banks of the river and another 11000000 live around that on google and got under the gun and. the source of the shit out of an indonesian wonder. the river meanders through the island of java for 300 kilometers and flows into the sea east of jakarta the country's capital. for the 1st kilometers the shit out of him is just a stream. it quickly becomes a river essential for farmers. that the river crosses the islands largest cities but as the kilometers go by we see something completely different. mound. of rubbish the white plastic replaces

the blue water. in indonesia despite strong growth and consumption the waste treatment system is still undeveloped so the river serves as an open rubbish bin and the fisherman are now fishing bottles. but all but there are no more fish here because the water is too polluted and they're not night. rudy is 23 years old he walks along the sheet of room for 9 hours every day he works for a recycling cooperative. but the well i'm the most with plastic water bottles. they collect more than 50 kilos of them and a. half so you think. 5 and 6 euros. for

6 years rudy has been plunging his hands into the horrors of the river. i spoke about the worst is the smell from the dead animals but i'm used to. under this mangrove forest trapped in the roots thousands of pieces of debris have accumulated a little more each day and a large amount is not collected indonesian rivers dumped 200000 tonnes of plastic into the sea each year. plastic. visible pollution. shocking. but not the most dangerous. to ship to rome and its inhabitants suffer mainly from chemical pollution.

to understand what's happening we go to one of the many villages along the river and its textile factories. and noor has always lived here. every morning this 42 year old woman goes to the well which is fed by the shit a room. that is so i used the water from the rich did the dishes washed clothes and the things how you would i'm. glad of the chalet and to wash vegetables. and i'm at the color changes sometimes it's black sometimes it's red. this morning the ocean is playing on me so i'm taking the opportunity to wash the vegetables in

any case we have no choice there are no other sources of warsaw to see how you. feel moving knew our lives right by the well at the heart of this district where 3000 people live a quarter of the inhabitants are under 15 years old they are the most fragile the ones who seem to suffer the most from pollution like nurse to children. these are my own just feels nauseous. to develop the time last time the doctor said he had a liver problem a pipe of the day he also has a headache and recounting his. new or has a doctor's appointment. the clinic is half an hour away by car. and. they do this twice

a month. uda her eldest son falls ill as soon as he finishes his medication. how long has he been sick. about for 3 days. and what symptoms does he have. to his chest when he calls yesterday he felt sick and he vomited as soon as he tried to wait a lot of people all my neighbors have the same problems because we shout without risk and then really it is extremely dirty and the idea i haven't any alley. how much yes we also see many cases of diarrhea especially in children it may be related to the contaminated water they drink. but as for the skin diseases we see young it's hard to prove scientifically. and not that over the last good.

it's impossible to draw definitive conclusions there is no epidemiological study and no proof of the impact of pollution of the shit up on the local population. one man is fighting to change that. denny and this one dani he runs the only environmentalists o.c.a. in the region. for 17 years he has been surveying the chateaux room in search of evidence of pollution by the textile industry. isn't enough there had to be in this region and there are 500 textile manufacturers

located along that she taught and they pour there so. directly into the river on average each of these plants disposes of 1300 liters of waste water per day i'm going somewhere under them among that a bit has different colors depending on the dyes they use what market they are supplying and the type of clothing they have to make supply on the floor proper what i do. and mandela here's the discharge from several factories and if you were to put it up like this in there you can see that and today it's dark red. and i don't think it's hot they're not very hot. this is why they call the cheetah are in the most polluted river in the world. and tomorrow you're it makes me want to cry. it's so sad to see that she tore him in this state where chamberlain does going to see my river so dirty up on them to look

at the poor fellow. who are these companies emptying their waste water into the shit out. we retrieve the list of textile factories along the river here they are on this map . here we can see all the textile factories on the banks of the tar him we've compiled data from the ministry of commerce to provide a clearer picture 75 percent of their production is destined for export mainly to the american and european markets. one of the largest exporter is in the country is the just next group.

getting access is difficult but the company agrees to let us in 4500 people work here. just x. produces mainly polyester fabric a synthetic material that requires a lot of chemicals. the group works mainly with large clothing stores. in these buildings 1000 machines operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week. the factory produces nearly 3000000 meters of fabric a month for the whole world. each of these machines processes the wires with water filled with chemicals.

the waste water then flows to the settling takes. thought it out away but the big man already thought that based on the size of. the meat that we have and handed me the blank and adapt it i don't think smith that it will work in the form of who's going to do it what will it. be. other than it really. is not every day. only 5 daily parameters while international standards provide at least 31. was the body but. yes it was. i don't think so. it's not come home maybe but. still need to be feel that it's on the day but i mean

it's ok. you can pass my part of me fish hook on through is what the tank i think i put in or if i don't get them good. we are not really convinced by the test and we have a look of the current. law is going down. the door of a. maybe. they also must have thought and we don't want to get the study up. we want to know what the waste water of this sub contractor of the global textile industry really contains. to find out we have to follow this discreet white pipeline on the left which dumps the plants waste in the shit out of the overflow channel is hidden under the foliage at the edge of the site. this area is

off limits and to access it you have to cross the river from the other side one can just that there's another one right there a discharge outlet from the just takes factory stuff. we are approaching the water pipe. from 30 metres the water is already covered with a film of white foam. this is what just x. did not want to show us. we are on the company's property without authorization

so we must be quick. we take 2 leaders to analyze. the whole. ball. as we go down the shitter room the smoke from another factory catches our attention . lensing the world leader in artificial fiber. the company's supplies. majority of major clothing brands. again huge suddenly tanks. one of the villagers shows us where to find their overflow channel. and then on the banks of the ship to room. 0 they want to know.

what a stand should be awful. the smell is suffocating. it is here $300.00 metres from the factory that lensing pours its waste out of sight and close to fields and houses. yellow and black flow of waste that ends in the river. this time we have more time so we directly test the water with our apparatus. an analysis kit for different pollutants that was recommended by a scientist. can you hear me professor. loud and clear professor legroom is a chemist who specializes in water analysis. if what you're the 1st analysis be. disputed chromium because chromate are often used in the textile industry see. that's why

i suggested it to you as an indicator. chlorides can be an indicator of pollution. arsenic nitrates ammonium. the 10 milligrams of phosphate per liter on body difference that's. the results only give us a rough assessment of the pollution. for a more accurate reading i'm going to take some water samples for a laboratory to analyze later. the rice fields are only a few metres away. this is the main crop along the shit out of. this is where can use of.

rotten everything is. so what's wrong with the rice plants i believe the contaminated water causes the roots of my rice to rot and then the insects attack them look at the end sex you know there are lots especially a fits the bill because it can use of plots are literally surrounded by textile factories. the water that irrigates his rice field is purple and from. what pollutants are hiding in this rocks. i'm going to test the rice before i don't know never.

do we take our samples of rice and water to the institute of ecology of pa judge at arms university. then simmons you're going to condense going to go for you. right it's professor sonority runs the only environmental studies laboratory in the region we can measure that then we've made the offering was lead. basis sure to like a sunny. and then medically also cadmium the. men for the. woman predict if it is something like. a come back you know we're going to. continue thank you again you see you.

close to the factories while we wait for the test results we get some of the women and children of the village together. to. offer to analyze they're here to better understand which pollutants they are exposed to. a delicate protocol to advise us we put the price up and seller on the line. what can you hear me professor. yes he is the person to speak to when europe when it comes to researching pollutants with hair samples he is head of the human bio monitoring unit at the luxembourg health institute. what's the point of hair analysis compared to blood or urine tests proving that. blood or urine test gives us information about the few hours before the sampling with air it's different. the speed of growth is around one centimeter per month and it's easy to get samples more than one centimeter long so we have information covering

a period of several months and that makes the sample really representative of the individual's chronic exposure. what's found in the hair has passed through the body and through the blood system. is going to children have a metabolism that is still maturing and this is precisely why they are especially vulnerable to any kind of endocrine disruptors. in total we take the hair of 10 children from the same neighborhood aged from 12 months to 14 years. we send them straight to professor up in the cellar in luxembourg. and. as we are leaving the village we receive a phone call from the environmental activists we met on our raft trip.

i met in high mass and i think she should come and see the pen as she discharged outlet. there discarding their waste in the middle of the night one of our contacts is on site. the factory is located right on the edge of the she took. part in. the pan asia group is one of the largest indonesian sub contractors in the textile industry. we filed a complaint to pan asia. because when the water rises it reaches our fields and it makes our skin start to itch. i don't know what. the water is dirty the smell is unbearable. the. bills how do you. think you want to live in snow. for going to villager i talked to

told me to put on a mask if i go closer to the water big. yes it's true that even from here we can smell it. and it's pretty strong. thank you. it's really hot and the smell is unbearable. a little check out the color of the water. look. at bottom out here. don't you. think you're someone. thinking. this time we are not able to give this sample to dr sonorities laboratory

in indonesia he will not have time to analyze it we have to send them to another laboratory in friends that specializes in environmental studies. in the meantime we find the indonesian biologist dr sonority he has just finished analyzing the 1st 2 samples of water and rice that we had given to him he asked us to take him to the rice field where we took the samples because he wants to be clear he can hardly believe what he has found in the rice. one thing. or this. chromium been in the budget plans we found a very high 20. $8.00 milligrams but it will be found at. a lead. once interest in on the body

plans is much higher then come the sound of the limits it be fun $29.00 maybe. where the standard only 0.2521 times yes we're going to look this is a. body especially should lead this but he didn't give us this lead we are disturbed enough for system but since we're all fed up with our system so. if the children exposed to lead then they will have like intellectual disability and i mean that it's just. a worse effect of the net. i believe that the men. from the. textile industries. the government put the very strict standards then in 1st over not come to indonesia. but you know

if there is no standards for many farmers then we sacrifice the people. this rice that grows along the sheets or room is sold throughout indonesia it is contaminated with lead $116.00 times above the indonesian consumption standard it reaches such a high level because heavy metals accumulate in the rice fields this lead pollution seems to agree with dr sonorities other results testing wastewater from textile factories in just decks overflow channel water the level of lead is one. point 5 times the international tolerated limits for industrial waste water or the waste water of the lensing company it's worse the lead level is $3.00 times higher but that's not all another parameter attracts our attention sulphate lensing releases $7087.00 milligrams per liter almost 10 times the global recommendations high

levels of sulfate in water can lead to diarrhea especially in children this is one of the main causes of infant mortality in the country in indonesia $147000.00 children die each year before the age of 5. finally we received the results from the french laboratory for the pan asia factory where we took the water samples at night we read these at denny respond donnie's house the activist of the association for the defense of the environment where. it was to put together we contact the french chemist who was interpretating for the pan asia water analysis professor bad the good. scientist who specializes in water pollution. what do you say to the results. i know all of the water that you have analyzed is practically sewer water urban waste

water. given the bacteriology and taking into account the chemical oxygen demand plus we have a bit of tribunal phosphate not a product i see very often. it's a solvent. and then we also have a few that exceed the limits set out by the european union quality standards there are not all females to a concentrations of 70 micrograms per liter. that's high right. that's above the environmental standards in force in europe. and not all females are products that are ending destructors. not all females are aren't due to regular human activity you know these are chemicals used in the textile industry. have you seen similar levels of not all females

before in your career. never. can the water be used in farming no no it shouldn't be used for your occasions. how about washing or washing food. no it's really to septic each the water is one fouled us so what should we do if we don't have a choice we're dependent on this water. they need any lives here and ask what they can do to use the water anyway because they don't have a choice. at least boil it and react such unaided re area to it as a cools down and you need to decant it because it will have particle suspended in it and so at least boil it. in my main advice is to not drink it. some of the beauty i'm sad for myself and the residents along the tar on it. because the victims of this pollution don't know anything about the degree of danger they are exposed to and for the. 30 to 30 miles.

thanks. this will help us prove that the textile industry is contaminating the water and what impact that has on humans and the ecosystem until now we didn't know exactly what pollutants there were in the water. that you saw. what major clothing brands do the polluting factories we have spotted supply to. we sift through dozens of clothes. then their labels to know which ones work in indonesia. and here look at best made in indonesia. what about h. and m. made in indonesia. made in indonesia. we then

get the lists of indonesian sub contractors from these big brands the factories from which we have taken the waste water appear. on the lists. it's been as you say yeah but. the company is registered as one of h. and m's sub contractors pan asia also works with other brands like unique low. it was in the pan asia group's water that we found high levels of nano phenyl a powerful hormone disruptor. the just x. plant and it's waste with high lead levels is also sub contracted by the unique low brand. and lensing the plant with record sulphate levels in its waste water supplies raw materials to companies like gap a sauce marks and spencer and once again unique low and h. and m. . the swedish giant h. and m.

has an office in jakarta the indonesian capital. they are here on the 21st floor we have already tried to contact them by email but without success. incredibly. the director of h. and m. indonesia agrees to see us you know to go to the regional if you can. from then we film with our mobile phone. and i understand a question is on the environment i think yes which i think yeah so we made some which went on this is. what we found was. well yeah it was a little interesting especially that on its. own version in asia from this is that it will want you does that surprise you as it's something you've seen you for is not if you don't ask the questions today and this may seem bad i will go back and

look at every point and talk just also that you get to be 5 but really just you leave it in says no yes yes. 3 weeks after this interview h. and m. writes to us. we are sincerely concerned by the subject of your report. each of them has the size scale and ambition to lead the change towards a truly sustainable fashion industry. the production of raw materials like those from the south pacific plants in lensing concerns the entire textile industry. this is an important challenge that we will see with the entire industry will continue to choose the best possible alternatives regarding the panel body factory we have carried out independent audit the last 2017. despite numerous requests this h. and m.

supplier never authorized us to test its waste water again. the japanese brand unique low also implicated responds the analyses we had access to did not take into account the presence of lead and sulfate in the industrial waste water thank you for pointing out the unacceptable levels of these parameters near the just ex plant . in the case of the pan asian body plant after your investigation we consulted reports that show levels of. that are below your results. however we commissioned independent experts to investigate in greater depth onsite. we could have given many more examples 252 clothing brands work with indonesian sub contractors who dumped waste water into the shit out of. the big fashion

groups here are all gathered in the same association. the textile industry lobby in indonesia. a key sector with a 10000000000. and euro turnover. this me is their representative. would you think is what this is this comes from but asia. this is one of you remember we do this whether you use it for you in relation if i only use the. even if you so that all of the problems. we do not just for your country would look out for the environment we would see that we do not lose money. when you talk a little bit in them and then got the order and the both of those simple. so the greens are the real power yes. at the end of the morning close to that and then in this. house as

a father what does that make you see that you see dead children living around factories something like this if it also meant of pollution i think maybe the next 50 years we have no all. this x. man you know. 10 minutes. maybe 15 who think you know we have no. half smile. the spokesman of the textile lobby recognizes the impact of the industry on the health of the residents of the she taught room and the curtain falls. before reaching his sinister predictions could the indonesian government not take steps to avoid this cameco contamination mr oh you're welcome to follow us thank you for taking some time thinking at the ministry of environment the person in charge of pollution control agrees to meet us he reads our analyses

a little surprised. by the final. decision. so this is good information 'd. i think. what the police i'm going to take some time and. come from this number we have you do. but me. and you also know if you. have lied for textile industry it would be that if i stood up on the shelves long before the we. include. 'd something. good news for residents of the she took. good news which is quickly overshadowed by

the latest results of our investigation the hair analysis. professor up and seller sends us the report from the luxembourg health institute. on average the hair samples from the indonesian children contain more than 54 different pollutants . it's 54 pollutants in these children's hair is that a number that you often see or is it unusually high. just shifty 4 out of 140 we can scan for is pretty high if we look for more molecules we would definitely have found more pollutants in the samples we were analyzing. so in a sense it's just the tip of the iceberg. we give these results to the mothers of the children we took samples from like noor and uta. if the children fall ill again these tests might help specialists to better

diagnose them. in total we take care from $45.00 children living their textile factories for the 1st time professor up in cellar will include indonesia in his new scientific study. at the end of this trip there is a glimmer of hope. what if it were possible to produce clothing along the sheets of room while respecting the environment and the health of the residents this is the challenge taken on by this large textile factory it is the only one in the country to have received an international eco label with very high standards from the outside the waste water goes up and down the settling tanks and also for filtering and re oxygenation. the solid materials are even separated then

recycled. in total there are 12 treatments stages. and so that is what. they're. thinking what they're. good for and now. this is a long way for them. to see all this. and that is that and then. there's the. setting for this and i am. not making. this claim. and. they say they don't know yet but i'm in this here. for days and hopefully you can get. the fabrics of this factory are

10 percent more expensive than those of its indonesian competitors. is that the price for the ship to rome to once again become the most sacred river in the country instead of the most polluted in the world. to meet global demand textile production in indonesia is expected to increase by 75 percent by 2030. god. major clothing brands can no longer look away. too many victims are paying the heavy price.

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