ah, listen carefully, don't know how do you miss to do a good ah feel the magic discover the world around you. subscribe to the w documentary on youtube. ah, in the air, on land and under water industries are contaminating a natural environment, often with impunity. western pollutants threatened the health of millions of people,

but it's getting harder for papa treat us to hide. join us on eco, india, as we discover efforts to track and stop toxic practices. hello and welcome. i'm funnel. unlike what you see here, the pick he's that in god's many indian cities is a visual reminder of a killer lab is impossible to escape globally. air pollution accounts was 7000000 bits every year. a city in the national capital region tops the list of the cities with the wolves, whilst we headed there to find out why ah, it has been cold, the world's most polluted sick body, about 70 kilometer is away from india's capital dead. it is an industrial hub and

under doris balloon the recently released world air quality indexed by i q n. a swiss air monitoring company has reported that b verde has the highest find bought a good concentration in the world. bill id, the industrial town and a major problem of that region are that city has been the industries, the industries have not adopted the gain a technology so far cleaner fuel has also not reached the city as such. so for instance, in delhi, the city, most of the, in the student on lpg or gas, which is not the case, been polarity. that's a problem. there's also a big issue of faith burning. a lot of industrial waste which is generated in the city is burned without much control is open sun for pollution and that also adds to pollution in the city. but there are also regular issues of traffic. there's

a lot of traffic in the city. the culprit is but to collect matter 2.5, a dangerous fine particles with a diameter of up to 2.5 micro meters. this is much thinner than a human head. the donnie air particle can be made of toxic carbon models blasted and normal dust. it can damage the lungs, reducing their capacity to absorb oxygen with over 100000 residents. buddy is also a heavily polluted area with a large number of people living close to cement, steel, petroleum, and plastic manufacturing plants. the toxic fumes have been c really impacting the health of before these residents, especially jerk. so dish a don't the one he had all the body resident lives in one of these neighborhoods or 2 year old son. jesse suffers from acute respiratory issues and needs regular

normalization. ha fiscal because the my child started breathed heavy, he got a coil and cuffed so we took him here. we have a machine at home and my son starts to breathe heavily. be use it. if that doesn't give him relief, we take him to the hospital. so dish blames the emissions from the factories which are mostly you still goal fired, long term exposure to find dust particles can cause other health problems from asking even to lung cancer. minor symptoms like fatigue or body aches, are widespread damage aqua open it bo, i killed respite in the routine. cases of acute respiratory infections range from 5 to 10 percent, but when pollution rises, it reaches up to 20 percent. milton in composite back, witnesses infection, cookies buddy, up in, under sinking placement. they to that, given people who work,

i'll goes on at high risk. amr g does, does construction work to provide for his family. he has little choice but to risk his own help to on money to survive. louisiana malevolent douglas, jeff orland can itemize a company. i took a lease. companies have for mrs. budman inside and allied diesel oil company, a bike. it's a lot of pollution. this should be penalized, but it is not. what can we do? the ad libs. we have to add money to eat me. i don't you don't. the one, the government came up with the local action plans. dina fuels like compressed guess of pipe natural gas, making those alternatives accessible to all industries is a major infrastructural challenge. so far only 20 percent of industries in the body region have shifted to cleaner fuel electricity possible. if electricity not

possible at mr. gasper looseness, and for that that infrastructure needs to reach the city and that needs to be made . and this electricity or gas needs to be made available to the industry at the rate which is comparable and company to book for them so that they don't go back. arthritis used either he was in need are as rocky is one of the few industrialists who switch from coal to natural gas. he owns a conveyor belt, manufacturing plant, installing a by natural gas or b and g system was costing how to solve the allusion route. normally increases each year after the d valley festival. then if there were a decision was made to shift from cold by natural gas a. but they didn't. i used to be up in ve line jak with it, but in general, so the pendulum opened. nippy. we shifted to pin it right away and quickly and i

hope well or didn't what he may not be in the and i ought they. hm. nancy garcia, i'm the poor labyrinth of the i. r b in deductible rod, he says that switching from cold to b and g has helped him to reduce emissions. he says it is a relief to provide a healthier environment before his workers don't use their money even though i'm benefits in cost. had visited me failed. this was that i choice and considering that listening. lucia hm. the for, i'm not donald. yeah. but hippies, italy, apple, a sudden advantage movie the city council is now taking action to improve the lives of their body residence in the future. trash bunting will be more closely monitored and dumps will be constructed for industrial ways. the administration has already introduced other measures. didn't that, i mean, in the few months since the air quality report was published, the government has begun monitoring pollution on the rules that they have planted. more cheese, lee up being more attention to wiki. we hope to see if your sample hillman,

florida, business on morality has also taken the 1st steps in the right direction. now it is up to the estimated 300 other businesses in body who still use lot of dirty energy to follow his lead. unlike apaloosa, contamination of marine and violence can be harder to detect, especially when it's done illegal. one culprit ships when using the wolves oceans with oily waste water, as at a bottles discolored whistles bypass embodiment laws to save time and money with disastrous consequences. ah, these shaky video was filmed secretly inside of a think of ship secretly, because he shows something that should not be there. did you see it? that's what it again. there it is. ah, this is

a bail to bump. chips use it to illegally dump toxic, wasting the ocean facebook disease called belt dumping and it's causing one of the worst environmental disasters at see 1st, let's look at what builds water is availed is the lowest spot of a ship, but the 2 sites meet bits, water is the water that accumulates here, except it's not exactly water. ringback ships of this size are massive machines with lab, your intake pipe systems, engines bigger than coach buses. burning streams of heavy fuel oil, the pipes can leak, the oil can spill, and the engine sneak cooling and cleaning. all these liquids are collected in the belt and it's not a nice view. oh, we know very well that oil can chopping kill animals. well, bells water contains oil diluted with water plus various chemicals and heavy metals

. oil can suffocate and intoxicate fish and birds. and even if they survive, their offspring might not. phase is the heart of a normal healthy fish larva, this is that of a larva exposed to oil, the result, a smaller heart, a slower heart, heat and lowered senses of surviving ah builds. water is so toxic that it has been regulated for more than 50 years. it's a hellish drainage. you really don't want to damp in the ocean to find out what happens to our oceans. we looked at them from the sky. this is a problem that has been personally bothering me for most of my career. this is john amos. he found out about the build dumping problem 20 years ago when he found that sky truth for a non profit organization that uses satellite imagery to shine a spotlight on environmental issues around the world. and more precisely,

radar satellites, which 20 years ago were a very new technology. and we learned one of the things it's really good for is detecting oil slicks out in the ocean companies where already using it to discover oil deposits. when you find a small oil slicks, it's always in the same place, is a clear sign that there's the oil in the rock down there. a tables have turned in on those same images. regularly see these dark streaks on the water. we're not natural that often had a big ship the vessel in enter bills, damping. and at the time, looking at those slicks, there was no way for us to identify the vessels that were responsible. it could take hours for the satellite to send an image. by the time the received the vessel was a long gone, it was an extremely frustrating thing,

but everything changed with a i s that is automatic identification system, it's use is also required by international law. so that vessels can avoid running each other. ships are now required to transmit their position with a radio signal. satellites can pick up the signal and record the movement of every ship. you know, the exact time in the exact place from the satellite. and then we just find the broadcast, the match that most closely in space and time. and when we put it on the screen, we had a clear match of that of one track. clearly matching the path of the flick for this investigation. algorithms were trained to automatically recognize potential spills in one year. we found $1500.00 potential dams in you waters alone,

the whole done. this weighs roughly equivalent to 5 times the 989 exxon valdez spiel. one of the worst marine environmental disaster. even worse, deaths, a conservative estimate and even was hardly anybody knows about it in the even worse phases of deliberate practice. so why are we not holding companies accountable? there are other features on radar satellite imagery that can look like an oil slick . it could be caused by ships carrying fish, oil, vegetable oil or by other elements. it's not sufficient at this point in any courts of law that i'm. ready aware of, but in combination with other things, it can be powerful accessory evidence to help make a lead. ok to be taken as proof of visual confirmation must come from someone on the ground. hm. celina police lan

here because we're having the german coast garden on one of the inspections that been how they ship. hello, kevin, nice to meet you. we are. he had to carry out a marble inspection with the bids water is collected down here a 2nd. and finally, the bids water passes through these ali water separator with wanting to regulate the section is over

a book. so captain, that's a testament both on spectrum all with no deficiencies broker, no problems this time. but that doesn't mean bilge dumping isn't happening. postcards, only inspect the fraction of the ships and only check those already docked in a port. not the nicest way the dumping occurs. but there's some one else on the ground that can confirm what satellites reveal. someone who follows these ships wherever they go. whistle blowers. hello, a hello. how are you? i'm good little noise. how are you? i'm good. this is one of fine whistleblowers we talked with. we decided to withhold his name to protect his identity. thanks to his description, we build a 3 d model of file builds. dumping works here is the bed stick and here is the

notorious build to pump. so what we did was speed that pump transfers from the been stuck school, another down corners the teen tech and all those of us. but the doctor stuck, only clean liquid, comes into it and be hot if you judged the contents of it . and here you have it bends dumping one along, but there are positives to them. the new generation of radar imaging, satellites that are coming are going to have multi polar, multi frequency radar systems where we do have an ability to discriminate the type of material that's been discharged and will even be able to say something about the thickness doyle slick satellite technologies getting so much better that he could one day be enough to incriminate offenders until then

we rely on whistleblowers to stop this practice. so unless so there is someone on board, it's a disagree. got some without insight. there testimonies are crucial for investigations like this. but we shouldn't have to rely on their courage to protect our ocean o illegal pollution, of course doesn't just happen out of feat. romania is a dumping ground for trash unlawfully shipped there from all over europe. it's a multi 1000000000 euro business run by wisc smugglers. but investigators a hot on the heels. this is an illegal landfill outside too caressed last erupt. javion baton who was head commissioner of romania environmental guard, leading an investigation into austin at the sites with the little brought them out of them. a lot of garbage was burned here for 20 minutes. there was a lot of smoke bicycle to more far as like that and the south of growth would be

engulfed in smoke and stern. sure. this was apple quarters to be several times in recent years. apaloosa in the romanian capital has exceeded e u limits a 100 times over. heavy traffic is one cause, but so 2 is the illegal burning of waste, some of which it emerged comes from germany last summer, romanian border police made a major discovery in the black sea port of constantia more than 1800 tons of suspicious waste. it had been declared as plastic, but it also contained metal tires, batteries, and even carcinogenic asbestos. it's against a new law to miss label shipments and export. hazardous waste. we had to germany and europe, 3rd largest port hamburg romanian authorities. and greenpeace have implicated a company based here in illegal waste shipments over the phone,

the metal recycling company may law says it doesn't want to comment. it failed to respond to an official press inquiry. we sent 10 days earlier. then suddenly, the manager appears. as nathan ross, can we hear about illegal shipments from milan? found in romania legato? no, no, no. you're being prosecuted. therefore though i've met nonsense, it's been cleared up. it's a mistake merchant. would you like to say that on camera? i'm about. i'm not the right person to talk to that you are. that's why we called you the ones, either fellow nama no cameras. a few minutes later, the manager acknowledges he's aware of romanian investigation, but insists his company's waste shipments were legal that it will mean mm hm. i know the romanians are investigating, but they didn't analyze the shipment. they glanced at it and thought, oh, there's some cables and a circuit board in there. mr. clinton, when you visit. but d. w has seen the reports compiled by romanian prosecutors and analysis by

a german labs found that the shipment included undeclared toxic components. back in romania, we may talk ta vian, but china at the landfill again. he is no longer in uniform. he was fired, did his dismissal have to do with his efforts to stop trash smuggling pacifically? morgan is up. pick out this is organized crime or the showed or shifting waste from countries like germany or britain, britain, mars italy, but also from bulgaria and romania itself is the cheperdak little north of bulgaria . some of this waste has travelled thousands of kilometers to get here. the e commission says germany is a key market for waste smugglers. the humbug case is just one of many under investigation by prosecuted tail danita. he says the problem isn't just dishonest business owners, but also corrupt politicians of orig,

possible. so wanted only means them annually. one ministers answer left me speechless. my focus. okay. she said we trying to do it because it would unger, the big cement producers of our gym lacrosse up until cassandra, they have a strong lobby. got all the doors example to nick. he heads to the harbor for another inspection was, was i just got a call from the you judicial authority long about coordinating the case with germany and belgium, georgia in romania charges have already been filed against the humbug based company . china band, the import of plastic waste in 2018. ever since western european countries have increasingly shipped their garbage to romania, bulgaria and poland. germany is considered a world leader in recycling and achievement. it seems that wouldn't be possible without its waste exports to eastern europe. governments and international

organizations like interpol, have the power to bring west offenders to justice. but addressing environmental contamination on a local level can yield results to. we have 2 examples from the north and the south of india, where women are the ones spearheading drives to clean up their communities. clean water for washing and drinking is something that has only recently done to the village of allan cancer local women. the pursuer did residence to meet regularly and clear the stream of plastic ways, most of and dumped by to this tracking on nearby glacier trails. donia go. what did he sources are getting polluted if you get into white? so we're trying to keep the water clean in our village, all of us, including elders and children, dick as our responsibility to clean the street. i'm proud of doing it as long as i live in this village. i will keep the stream clean. classical alarm is nestled in

the mountains and the indian, the steward of jumble and kashmir. the stream is de locals, only source of fresh water to keep it clean. every household has built a septic dan. that's put a stop the open definition on the streams. bangs allan, let the weather benefit by letter got on the diver malice. oh it is. that is a possibility of every house will here to keep the village clean. asked is the 1st village along the course of the stream. it flows down to hundreds of other villages . so if we keep it clean but others will follow to saturday. when i know of how that banjo, whether in the country on the city in india, it's often vivian who start such initiatives. clean water and electricity are red and poor neighborhoods. many people use jealousy, lambs and cook on open fire, both of which can cause lung disease and both emit climate heating, carbon dioxide,

blocks me lives in an informal settlement, and man to lose a solar lamp chain to life. she started selling the lamps 3 years ago and come from running her own small business, allowed her to move a family into an apartment now to have both the light and running water. my children suffered a lot. i have 2 daughters and i used to have to ask them to wake up by the end to take a bug before sunrise again. now we have other on my truck that we can use whenever you want. they can only ideally activities when it suits them best or leave. now miss stan with a blue, she sells the lamps are and then june receives a percentage of each sale. the solar lamps cost between 11 and 23 years apiece. a steep price must be paid, but with the support of the social on the prize ball in mid crew, locals can buy the lens on credit interest. free. lux me has convinced other

women to switch to sola. mud him says the lamps have made a world of difference to her family. they may know, but after all that some days we would run out of kerosene and had to be without like that till we could buy more somebody and back then we didn't even have mobile phones to use as flashlights. i guess we would cook and eat and live in darkness. to be honest, the solar lights haven't just let my home life did lit up my life. i'm doing that now. breaking them. so a lot of live in rural and urban communities demons, commitment to affect change despite limited meat is bringing benefits to their own life, to their neighborhoods and the environment to the west. and you should be creat on, but he's not going anywhere. we don't have a plan to be to send this to as each one of us takes action counter this to be

a future generations can be assured that they will have access to a clean, green and a healthy planet. i'll leave you with that and see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching. ah, [000:00:00;00] with,

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