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our journey begins in the mountains of the island of java. at the foot of the wyong volcano there is a lick. the cradle of the shootout room river. the e.u. the e.u. on t.v. bakhtiar a geographer at a university in the region knows this place well. i mean

when you see tutsi sonti is the name of the sacred lake at the beginning of the cheeto rome. if we walk a little further i'll show you the real source where the bubbles come out of the ground i mean. this is how it is the water here is very pure clean enough to wash your face with. it will be no he will it's more than just home from a night no one i feel at peace here on the water is still so clean legend says it's the water of youth. that she told him is so important for indonesia it's very very important to believe . thanks to the dams the river generates enough electricity for the islands of java and bali you know what to. do you gonna it's a source of drinking water you know 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 i'm going to i got on the beginning. of 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 island's largest cities but as the kilometers go by we see something completely different. mounds 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 are there no more fish here because the water is too polluted during the night. rudy is 23 years old he walks along the sheets of room for 9 hours every day he works for a recycling cooperative. but while 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 year olds. for

6 years rudy has been plunging his hands into the horrors of the river. but about the worst is the smell from the dead animals but i mean still. 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 dump 200000 tons of plastic into the sea each year. plastic visible pollution. shocking. but not the most dangerous. to shoot 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 it's textile factories. 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 . i used to watch from the rich do the dishes washed clothes. that is how you and i'm. glad to sally and to wash vegetable and. after another man i become it changes sometimes it's black sometimes it's red. this morning the ocean is playing the song taking the opportunity to wash the vegetables

in any case we have no choice there are no other sources of force us to see how you . feel when you 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 this one last time the doctor said he had a liver problem. he also has a headache and he counting is. 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. for about 3 days. and what symptoms does he have. the in his chest when he calls and yesterday he felt sick and he vomited as soon as he tried to wait on the pool my neighbors have the same problems because we shout with ritalin and there really is it strange that the m b i everybody 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 disease as we see here it's hard to prove scientifically. that not that over the last it. it's impossible to draw definitive conclusions

there is no epidemiological study and no proof of the impact of pollution of the shit out 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. doesn't end up they're going to dope it out in this region and there are 500 textile manufacturers located along that she talk and they pour their 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 and by what i mean. here's the discharge from several factories. you can see that and today it's dark red. and i think it's hot i'm a very hot. this is why they call that she tara in the most polluted river in the world. someone that makes me want to cry. it's so sad to see that she tar him in this state.

chamberlain that's going to see my river so dirty i mentioned that we can look at the 4 phillips. who are these companies emptying their waste water into the should. we retrieve a 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 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 export is in the country is the just x. 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 tanks. so on is out away but the 5th month oh i thought that. the size is. the myth that we have and kind of meet the blank and then that depth is i don't think smith that it will become a permit to want to do it like no. other than it really. is not every day. only 5 daily parameters while international standards provide at least 31. the body but. this isn't true but. i don't think so. but if it's not come home maybe most people still need to be feel that it's on the

day but i mean it's ok. you can pass by part of me feel a bundle is what the tank i think i put in if i don't get it then good. we are not really convinced by the ichi test and we're going to come to the plate. but the ball is going down. the road and. maybe. he also must get on then we low water must get the audio. 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 plant's waste in the shit out of the overflow channel is hidden under the foliage at the edge of the site and this area is off

limits and to access it you have to cross the river from the other side like you just said there's another one right there a discharge outlet from the just takes factory. we are approaching the water pipe. from 30 meters the water is already covered with a film of white foam. this is what just ex 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 chute to room the smoke from another factory catches our attention. cleansing the world leader in artificial fiber. the company supplies the majority of major clothing brands. again. huge settling tanks. one of the villagers shows us where to find their overflow channel. and then on the banks of the chatroom. it's here 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. even what you're the 1st analysis be the old school of chromium because crewmates are often used in the textile industry

d.c. . 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. rice fields are only a few meters away. this is the main crop along the shit out of. this is where congo.

look how rotten everything is. so what's wrong with the rice plants i did lima the contaminated water causes the roots of my rice to rot and then the end sex attack them look at the end sex you know there are lots of specially aphids little bit of that can use of plots are literally surrounded by textile factories. the water that irrigates his rice field is purple and frothing. what pollutants are hiding in this rice. test of rice before i don't know never.

we take our samples of rice and water to the institute of ecology of project university. thank you means you for that ok i'm just going to be on the phone to you. writes professor sonority runs the only environmental studies laboratory in the region we can measure the temperament offering mostly did indeed has basis sure like a sunny egg and then medically also cadmium the effect of i mean just like somebody's cancer. and even then. men predict if the woman predicted to do something like you have to do she is ok thank you but i'm not going to yeah i'm going to buy them. a continued thank you again for to see you and you get. close to the factories while we wait for the

test results we get some of the women and children of the village together. thank you. offer to analyze they're here to better understand which pollutants they are exposed to. a delicate protocol. to advise us we put bryce up in the cellar on the line. when you hear me professor. yes he is the person to speak to in 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 test. blood or urine test gives us information about the few hours before the sampling with hair 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 if your 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 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 outlets. 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 told them. to park it ok. 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 a drop. of water is dirty the smell is unbearable. you know how do you. think you want isn't snow. for going to

the village or i talked to told me to put on a mask if i go closer to the water big. because 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. you don't check out the color of the water. look. in time out here. ok. ok. thank you. 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 and 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. they'll come from and by the plants we found out it's very high. for many companies would be found at. a lead. concentration on the

body plans is much higher then come the sound of the limits. on 29.03 made me good i'm particularly good i'm where the standout only is that a plane rented by its money on one time this is going to increase appearances look . and we can body especially true can lead this but he didn't get us this led to another system would send it all off and if it all system so. children exposed to lead then and even have the like intellectual disability and i mean if this. was in fact of the net. i believe that the men. from the. textile industries. the government would have very strict then infest over not come through and it is you. but you know if there is no

standard for many of us 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 1.5 times the international tolerated limits for industrial waste water for 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 lee. 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 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 danis house the activist of the association for the defense of the environment where people were. able to put together we contact the french chemist who was interpretating the pan asia water analysis professor baer not that good. scientist who specializes in water pollution what do you say to the results of. 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 the concentrations of 17 micrograms per liter. that's high right now. that's above the environmental standards in force in europe. and not all females are products that are end the current 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 irrigation. how about washing for washing food. no it's really to septic each the water has been filed so what should we do we don't have a choice we're dependent on this water. the daily lives here and asks 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 that is a cools down and you need to decant it because it will have particles suspended in it and so at least boil it. all in my main advice is to not drink it. through the beauty i'm sad for myself and the residents along the t. thomas. because the victims of this pollution don't know anything about the degree of danger they are exposed to and. so you learn once again.

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 she here look at best made in indonesia. just what about h. and m. made in indonesia. made in india next year. 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 its waste with high lead levels is also subcontracted 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 your camera. from then we film with our mobile phone. and i understand a question is on the environment that states yet think yeah so we made some words right now this is. what we found was. well yeah it was a little interesting especially that on its. own mission mission from this is that one of you does that surprise you is it something you've seen before is no i cannot ask the questions today in this new scene but i will go back and look at the report

and talk to stockholm so that you get the big guy this week but really just you read it and says no no no yes yes. 3 weeks after this interview h. and m. writes to us. we are sincerely concerned by the subject of your report. h. and m. 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 and lensing concerns the entire textile industry. this is an important challenge that we will see with the entire industry continued to choose the best possible alternatives regarding the body factory we have carried out independent audit. 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 in sulfate in the industrial waste water thank you for pointing out the unacceptable levels of these parameters knew that just sticks plant. in the case of the pan asia body plant after 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 dump 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 drink is what this is this comes from beijing for this is one of you remember we do this whether you use it for you irrigation if i live a little i use that. even if you so that all the problems. we're not just for your country were looking for the environment when you see that we've been absolutely. when you talk a little bit in them and then cut the order and the both of those simple. so the greens have a real power yes. but the plan and it still mourning clothes. and then you miss. as

a father what does that make you feel to see that children living around factories sometimes like this if so many of our lives and i think maybe the next 50 years we have know all. but this x. man you know well i'm ecstatic with. the new that's. maybe the 5th i think it will be i know. a half smile the spokesman of the textile lobby recognizes the impact of the industry on the health of the residents of the she top room and the curtain falls. before reaching his sinister predictions could the indonesian government not take steps to avoid diskette mccoll contamination of the 3rd oh you're welcome to follow us thank you for thinking from time 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 federal. system. yes ok this is good information. i think i. want to pull this i'm going to the local. and. this number will be the. local film and if i say meet. and we'll solve the. deadline for the textile industry in the world if i stay on the thought of a lot of new fallout be 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 in the cellar sends us the report from the luxembourg health institute. on average the hair samples from the indonesian children contain more than 54 different pollutants. 54 pollutants in these children's hair is that a number that you often see or is it unusually high. 54 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 uda. and if the children fall ill again these tests might help specialists to better

diagnose them. in total we take hair from $45.00 children living their textile factories for the 1st time professor up and seller 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 treatment stages. actually this one. in their. thinking what their. need for a laugh. this is for them. to see although this. and then. there's the. house that is and i am. not making. this claim. and. they say they don't know yet but i'm still. here. 30 years and hopefully they can get. the fabrics of this

factory are 10 percent more expensive than those of its indonesian competitors. is that the price for the should have room 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. 9. major clothing brands can no longer look away. too many victims are paying the heavy price.

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