as area bagus classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites it's tanneries or an out in out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch forth 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 into two elling penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. the brewery gangle river flows through the slum is paying the highest price. tanneries use vast amounts of water millions of liters of water required to wash treat and tender skins. this water goes into the sowers. 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 their life they know this is the only body that. and the point of cockeye dependent on this for a number of cities this is we just saw some of which are believed by defy the affair by their way of being. 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 them this filthy water. just like many others the owner of this small town every specialized in dying skins is unconcerned by the hazards his activity gives rise to. the more of this evacuation system has been in use for a long time. but a dirty water inevitably goes into the river. there's nowhere else for it to go that's the way it is. that really judge it would naturally flow into the river. thief of course water containing chemicals is bad for the health probability bubble but if we worried about toxicity it would stop working. is ready to do that. but in this country the polluters need to factory owners 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 tender ways of his area back. i think that 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 yes maybe a hundred games for you yet and then all the factories. releasing. three did leave we waste. seventy percent of the total position that is being caused to this rebirth is coming from the teddy . dumping chromium me to the evil white guy and it is very difficult to take chromium out of your system. if your self

a slacker is contaminated with chromium and if it is going down any good activity that you can't even cure it that means you're actually exposing the entire population of the city it does very deadly s.u.v.s. to turn loose of poisoned the city's entire canal system. was the main artery of. water and fish to the population. today it's the third most polluted river in the world. no living will can is and can survive in it and the stench it exudes makes even sailing there is a difficult. issue . yellow. you don't even need to. go

but that would. cost on the nose the water is poisoned there 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. the task was to carry on even if there are no more fish we can barely survive. that should look. good joe you see our empty nets although not. all that live should use the. yes there. was. the. run. was. a job but.

it's only during the rainy season with the fall of fresh water the fishermen couldn't hope to catch a life fish. it would take many years and millions of euros to clean this water though you didn't really i was that is i have been eating here for thirteen years when i want to raise and clean it and my husband was a fisherman and we were living thanks to seem that all today the fish from the what it 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 boat aground a good long look what happened to it this river runs right through dhaka how could they let this happen and the government does nothing. the human ecological consequences are nothing short of x tester of. the world trade

organization has ruled that alternative is must be brought up to international regulation re standards by two thousand and fourteen. that 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 appointed 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. i say that it's easy to do much complicated it's simply challenging stream of the stress and also full of praise and. because. each and every effort and dry after having. we faced so much pressure from the

industry and owners from the high yields the following complaint about pollution is to challenge very intense scientific team have come to take some samples. yes are you listening to me not all along they did find out which factories are responsible i think belongs to the group lead with what do the. money. we've got to get samples. telling did. they buy did the pollution is in grazing they were swimming was over here and how it becomes so 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 he

. 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 it goes you'll see taking the plants having this really did work there and they'll do made this into the candle handle to be ordered to let's go up this dust is very dangerous one of those factories dust emissions are poisoning us. this it also does that mission from this factory and we are not being affected. i need to program i think there's a problem with your water the oxygen levels and it will be low with the smell of body temp the water is bad i can tell from the smell. but it won the can we did a bit help 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 you start 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. that you can pick up it's very poor water it's older and color are so strong in order to pull 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 fish to survive it should be at nine. but there this is a warning so that you correct your errors but i'm going to have to sanction you for your wrongdoing 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 straight line actually in full support 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 to take some help from the get rid of this banality. good example from our legal action. to try to get. help from now i have some but a bit in the low days so unlawfully are already more than every day since the government gets seen and the government gives invade easy because they're dead on their money because the danity owners have it but and then even if the money

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a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. i was a new alert and a patient scripts scared me a little but. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news coming in to the alexander family cry tears of the. brave thing that. he had. found. there's a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. 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 standards 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 relaunch this project. this place was a billy you know it was pretty clumsy place it is a law and dick truly after. setting up a new. city here. has filled up this land with. it so people are getting thrilled and that's a damn thing has been done here but. people come here hundreds of people are coming here to see the new place how developing new it is not developing at all despite

all these commitments from the government all of this is from the government down there the owners have not not this and the owner has moved from this there has surely any need of moving from this place without. their 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 but we don't understand one thing. in just a group can be much stronger than the government when the courts directed the can there is have to move within a certain day if there are bad i have to show dollars then it was actually the government who are big 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 going to get there in asking for more pain from the court it could have been just the other way around the world. is developing country of one hundred

fifty million inhabitants ensures its economical survival thanks to the letter and text on 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 and the dish has become the place to go so buyers from the west in two thousand and ten alone there's a production heroes but 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 it's on syria activities nothing goes to waste in the strait. will skins will become purses and bags.

even scraps of flesh fat and died like the remnants of we used. thank you. these also cuts a destined for the open air factories. yes yes we pick them up with our bare hands. and what's that. it would lever shavings the machines shred them here on it is it 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 so leave the waste from the tanneries 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 who works here is that i mean these big dry trash and this is actually raw material that he's trying to turn around for manufacture on three feet much income i love it that ok this is a feat we should feed and on to take. this bone meal is made from less a list of 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. chances to see them again missing. people eating fish and. chicken. jade goody's we. have never seen you get to my body. but what you see here is time labor i mean i think up a penny for 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 going to be about how long could anyone last here does that take a look at the x. rays of inhabitants lungs any of them you'll see they're black under x. ray they appear black. it can't be what i kind of talks at fumes here spread for miles around. you know me dad dad that. you can smell it you're going to end up in our town is good north south east or west of them in a fifteen kilometer radius is it getting stiffer to get them on and yours the same just. how much do you earn a mile twenty seven euro's and how long do you work for nonstop so they say they work on this bridge hour. 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 to not treat all. holding to the president of the franco bangladeshi chamber of commerce the country's strengths is its work songs. before we take that bomb of this we continue to stay in the competitive level because we have been allowed young forth coming into the market in various about two million workforce. coming to market the present infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private medium and these people are waiting for you know benefit disguised employment maybe why do you need. two workers where five workers are walking so this is an advantage obama. elicit workers

poti made up of child labor those figures enable us to tell how many children a working in the leather industry but 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 over 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 who is in the name of producing a clean alyssa 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 by european purchase was prepared to accept such a deal. the saddest thing is that we in this country we need industrialisation but not such industrialization because the effect of a cheater is really really sad story. but i do have the best i have seen that in a number of cases once the european view is once the european consumers i heard about the fact they take a position and that situation to improve. so i would definitely hope that the

european consumers would start asking question so that takes heah getting proof because in this particular case is if the buyer stake a position that trying to actually make life difficult for them. down any on. it took almost an hour to set up the. lovely. i don't live in. can you do you think we're going to be poor all of our lives. than a dozen eggs i just want to earn more money if you don't need to reach. out our.

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