as area bag is classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites it's tanneries or an out and out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch for fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up amid the housing and along the river bank. the demand soon the waste floods in to do penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. the brewery gangle river flows through the slum is paying the highest price. to tanner is used vast amounts of water millions of liters of water are required to wash treat and tender skins.

this water goes into the sewers. it is no longer useful you know that it is discarded. it ends up polluting the river. haven't you noticed the state of the burger rivers water this is the water that flows into it. all this water laden with chemical products is dumps directly into the river with no purification. i this is a very it is the i say no this is the only a walk of i guess that was true. and the point of attack i depended on this rebirth for a number of theories this we just saw some of which are big. if i do if i get there

by the end there would be. we wash ourselves here because we have no other choice we have no running water but there are always two hundred people waiting at the public fountains so we have to wash in this filthy water. just like many others the owner of this small town or e. specialized in dying skins is unconcerned by the hazards his activity gives rise to . the moment but this evacuation system has been in use for a long time. it was dirty water inevitably goes into the river. there's nowhere else for to go that's the way it is. that really got it would naturally flow into the river. thief of course water containing chemicals is bad for the health probable that would have been a bubble but if we worried about toxicity it would stop working. to go by when it

was ready to do that. but in this country and the polluters needed factory owners well polluting they don't pay for the clean up. philip again is a bangladeshi scientist in ten years he's been the only person to study the question of the pollution produced by the ten days of his area back. i've been down that situation has become waters he sees the washed polluted air he had that i have ever seen in bangladesh and in many other countries. maybe maybe a hundred games for you yet and all the factories. releasing. three did leave we waste. seventy per cent of the total position that is being caused to this river is coming from the ten. i

. don't think romney any today either walked up and it's very difficult to take crimea out of your system. if your self a striker is contaminated with chromium and if it is going down any good actor live it that you can't even cure it that means you're actually exposing the entire population of the city into the very deadly n.s.e. . attorneys have poisoned the city's entire canal system to bury gang was the main artery of. drinkable water and fish to the population. today it's the third most polluted river in the world no living will can these and can survive in it and the stench it exudes makes even sailing there is a difficult. issue

sharia. law. you don't need to do. their job but it would. cost on the nerves the water is poison can't be any fish with the tanneries. and our forefathers were fishermen and lived off it we haven't caught anything for seven months now and what the film. was we carry on even if we are no more. we can barely survive. that would look. good joe you see our empty nets oh you know what. was. good you know. yes there. was. the. blue run.

but. it's only during the rainy season with the fall of freshwater the fisherman couldn't hope to catch a life fish. it would take many years and millions of euros to clean this water though didn't really. was i think. that is i've been living here for thirteen years when i want to resign clean and my husband was a fisherman and we were leaving thanks to seem that over today the fish from the what a gander is inedible and my husband is out of work if the river were cleaned well could leave well from it. to go to the government is responsible for the state of the buddha ganga long look what happened to it this river runs right through how could they let this happen and the government does nothing. to

human ecological consequences are nothing short of x. tester for. the world trade organization has ruled that alternative is must be brought up to international regulation re standards by two thousand and fourteen but bangladesh finds itself in a catch twenty two situation down to continue developing its booming leather industry and at the same time respond to the health and environmental concerns of its population. to deal with the situation the department of the environment has a point. mr choudary. his mission is to bring the factories up to standard and to sanction the polluting industrialists that's to say ninety nine percent of time. and how can i say that it's easy it's pretty much complicated chimney challenging steam leaks trace conan and also follow the race and the engines because.

each and every and then dry after having. we raise so much pressure from the industry and owners from the high yields the following complaint about pollution mr choudary and scientific team have come to take some samples. yes are you listening to me not along they to find out which factories are responsible i think a belongs to the group like with what do the fish in the money. we've got to get samples. telling did. they buy did the pollution is in grazing there were swimming ones over here how it becomes so why is it that their. money is money out of how we got those samples. on the field. after

discovering an exceptionally high level of water pollutants he visits the turner you know not. to begin. coming over here we found this illegal trade did this releasing the dog sick water without having to pretend this is in polluting water going to the pound and polluting the agriculture the cows you'll see taking the plants having this really did work there and they'll be made this big and they'll hand it could be ordered let's go up this dust is very. a dangerous one of those factories dust emissions are poisoning us. this it also does that mission from this factory and we are being affected. everybody different but i think there's a problem with your water the oxygen levels in it will be low with the smell of body the water is bad i can tell from the smell. but even the can we did

a bit up but it would seem your water treatment system isn't working every day i got to get this and i know. you've invested in installing it but it doesn't work. but it did p.p. but it's not functioning and this is this is proof of your failure the oxygen level is very low but i'm going to test it in front of you. right you can pick up it's very poor water odor and color are so strong in order to. you'll see. this money from practical experience and this is what it is dog free from pollution samples show the level of oxygen dilution in the water to be a zero point four for a fish to survive it should be at nine. but this is a warning so that you correct your errors but i'm going to have to sanction you for your wrongdoing but if you'll be closed down if you do nothing but to believe me i've had many factories shut down but you can check what i'm telling you it's in

the press. the statutory fine for polluting the environment is ten thousand euros yes this appears this remains more of a threat than actually enforcement of the law. putting to transparency international bangladesh is one of the twenty most corrupt countries in the world in his area bag nine of the largest turner is are owned by government members. after being. approved having already. told. try the big. some held up just to get free this banal to. get to them from our legal action. they tried to get some help from the high ups a but boy i didn't follow these unlawful already more than every day it's

the government give scene and the government gives invade the city because they get the owners money because the demand that the owners have with but and then we can is the money that can. process enforcing laws. passed that was a new alert innovation scripts scare me a little. you know there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news maybe new. alexander's family cry tears of joy and a great things rather that there has to be either read or get a quart of water found alive is a story made for movies playing out in real life. i

know c.n.n. and the amazon b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our team news we have to print press the good because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not up.

to the jokes i will handle the stuff that i've got to. if you. believe. in two thousand and three the supremes called raised the alarm bordering the his area back turner is to be relocated and brought up to standard the designated land fifty kilometers from dhaka was intended to accommodate the tanneries as well as a water treatment plant nine years later and still nothing has happened

environmental activist dr masterson is working to be launched this project. this place was a very you know it was very clumsy place it is a law and take your leave after. setting up a new. city here. has filled up this land with your sea with the art people of getting thrilled and that's a thing has been done here but. people come here every day hundreds of people are coming here to see the new place how do developing know it is not developing at all despite all this commitment from the government all of this is from the government . down there you know and there's have not not this and the owner has moved from this there are has shown any need of moving from this place should out there please the reason is that if they go far. and making their. investment environment friendly they probably would have to make

a major contribution with their profit. we don't understand one thing. industry group can be much stronger than the government when the courts directed the can there is have to move within a certain day if they are bad i have to show dollars then it was actually the government who appeared on behalf of the gallery owners in the court and the government pleaded for an extension after so you see the gallery owners and the government coming to get their act in asking for more pain from the court it could have been just how do you know the law. is developing country of one hundred fifty million inhabitants ensures its economical survival thanks to the leather and textile industries which represent eighty percent of the nation's exports the market is booming. production costs in china have doubled over the last five years. has become the place to go so bias from the

west in two thousand and ten alone as a production heroes by forty percent. the industry supports a multitude of smaller businesses in drying transportation waste intimidation and incineration. approximately one million people live for less than manufacturing and its and syria activities nothing goes to waste in this trade. small skins will become purses and bags. even scraps of flesh fat and died less a remnant we used. can't keep.

these off cuts a distance of the open air factories. yes yes we pick them up with our bare hands. a little flavor. and what's that. it would lever shavings the machines shred them with here on it they're going to. make a dent and. i've just been. going to do anything with that over there that's the fat we used to make soap and so we want it everything is what we see here is bad i mean these are actually waste solely to waste from the families these are being used for different purposes i mean this is solid and

liquid mix used for making salt water i know from man not you brian is that i mean these big dry trash and this is actually raw material that you say to turn around for manufacture on three feet much income of. that ok this is a feat fish feed and on to create. this bone meal is made from less the leftovers pulled with animal carcasses and beef and trails it's then used to feed chickens and also prunes for the european market. jane. want to see. many. options i don't see chemical missing people eating fish and. chicken. paid to these. terrorists to get you to my body.

but what you see here is time believe me i think of any. or any any any place. eighty open a meal sack trees here built in the middle of housing and give those toxic fumes day and night which makes death the most polluted city in the world. when you see the smoke over there what i want to say about how long could anyone last here does that take a look at the x. rays of been habitants lungs any of them you'll see there black or under x. ray they appear black. is that the one i kind of talks of fumes here spread for miles around. you know me dad like that. you can smell it you're going to

down up or not se good north south east or west in a fifteen kilometer radius is it getting stiffer if you can walk and us the same. how much do you earn a month twenty seven euro's and how long do you work for nonstop survey say they work on this group hour. and in half an hour don't salary the children of bangladesh also toil for the leather industry to contribute to the nation's economy and do no trivial. holding to the president of the franco bangladeshi chamber of commons the country strengths is its works alls. before we take that bomb of this we continue to stay in the company of leverage because we have been allowed

a young force come into the market embarrassed about two million work force. in the common market the president infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private media and these people are going for you know benefit disguised. from them maybe why do you need. two workers where five workers are walking so this is an advantage obama. elicit workers poti made up with child labor those figures enable us to tell how many children a working in the leather industry that they are everywhere despite the fact that bangladesh is a signatory to the international convention on the rights of the child its child labor is not clandestine and.

eighty percent of bangladeshis live on less than two years a day the whole family has to work mothers often have no other choice than to go out to work school is still a luxury for the majority of children here. in his area back to fifty percent of the population is illiterates.

and i hope my daughter will grow up to be a good person that she'll have an education that she'll learn to read and write i want to be able to give her that. the european union contributed two million euros to a number of his area back ten raids in the aim of producing a cleaner less. announce the results when significant the only means of saving the population in the environment would be to place the tanneries outside. the moves of this kind is costly and would increase production costs for european purchases prepared to accept such

a deal. the saddest thing is that we in this country we need industrialisation but not such industrialization because east africa h.-h. here is really pretty sad story. was i do the best i've seen that in a number of cases once the european view is once the european consumers good about the fact they take a position and that situation to improve. so i would definitely hope that the european consumers would start asking questions so that things heah get improved because in this particular case is if the buyer stake a position that didn't actually make life difficult for them. than anyone. else. try to understand that we're just.

lonely. i don't live there. can you think we're going to be poor all of our lives. but as i just want to earn more money if you don't need to be reach it all ok let us out.

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