Is a journey that begins in the mountains of java. And at a lake of the book of the why on both kaino. The source of the chit tara a member. Geographer at the university in the region is well acquainted with the area. Well i mean when you see tucci sonti is the name of the sacred lake at the beginning of that utah room. If we walk a little further ill show you the real source where the bubbles come out of the ground. This is how you see the water here is very pure clean enough to wash your face with. You know beyond any room its more than just home from a no one i feel at peace here thats the water is still so clean legend says its the water of youth. Thanks. To i dont know that she taught home is so important for indonesia its very very important. Thanks to the dams the river generates enough electricity for the islands of java and bali you know what. Are you gonna its a source of Drinking Water in the end used for face breeding and for agriculture. Well one and 3000000 people live along the banks of the river and another 11000000 live around that got under the gun in. The cheeto room is the life blood of java and vital to indonesia. The river winds its way down through the island for 300 kilometers before emptying into the java sea east of jakarta the countrys capital. For the 1st view kilometers of the chit oram is no more than a stream. But it rapidly turns into a river one that is essential for farmers. Then the river passes through some of the islands largest cities but the further the river progresses the more its appearance changes. With growing mounds of trash as white plastic gradually replaces the blue water. While indonesia has seen growing economic consumption in recent years its waste treatment system remains chronically underdeveloped leaving the river to serve as an open rubbish dump in local bishop to fish for bottles. But there are no more fish here because the water is too polluted. Rudy is 23 and works for recycling cooperative. He patrols the tar him for 9 hours a day every day. But the well im the most with plastic water bottles. I collect more than 50 kilos of them and they. Show you 3. Point 5 and 6 euros. For 6 years now ruby has been plunging his hands into the filthy water. I spoke about the worst is the smell from the dead animals but i mean stuff. Trapped in the underwater roots of this mangrove forests are thousands of pieces of debris with more accumulating every day. And most of it is not collected. Every year indonesian rivers dumped 200000. 00 tonnes of plastic into the sea. Visible pollution shocking in its dimensions. And more than merely an eyesore. But this is not the most dangerous source of pollution. For the cheap tar of minutes residents the worst offender is chemical contamination. To understand how this plastic plague came about we go to one of the small towns daughter of along the river and its many textile factories. Newer has spent her entire life here. Every morning the 42 year old goes for this well which is fed by the river i. Think. That is why i used the water from the river to do the dishes washed clothes. That is how you would im. Glad of the shallow end to wash vegetables. After another man died the color changes sometimes its black sometimes its red. This morning the ocean is playing a new song taking the opportunity to wash the vegetables in any case we have no choice there are no other sources of water to see how you. Feel moving nor lives right behind the well in the heart of a district that is home to 3000 people than a quarter of the population are under 15 years old they are the most vulnerable to the toxic substance of this like newer zone 2 children. One god is now my oldest feels nauseous. To develop and one last time the doctor said he had a liver problem. He also has a headache and he cant take his. Nor has a doctors appointment the clinic is a half hour ride away by horse drawn cart and. They make the trip twice a month. Her eldest son falls ill as soon as his medication runs out. How long has he been sick. For about 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 i mean all my neighbors have the same problems because we shower with a ripple in water and the river is extremely dirty. And the iron very early on. 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 its hard to prove scientifically. I dont let that on to the last get but. Its impossible to draw a definitive conclusions there are no epidemiological studies or proof of the impact of pollution from the river on local population. One man is fighting to change that. Denny respond dani runs the only Environmental Association in the region. For almost 2 decades he has been surveying the chips are gathering evidence of pollution caused by the textile industry. Because right now theyre not going to put on the beach in this region and there are 500 textile manufacturers located along that she taught and they pour their sewage directly into the river on average each of these plants disposes of 1300 liters of waste water per day im going somewhere under 3 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 a supply on the lot about what i do. Now heres the discharge from several factories and its going to open up this. Debate with you can see that you know today its dark red i mean. That i mean its hot theyre not very hot. This is why they call that she tar on the most polluted river in the world. Tomorrow year it makes me want to cry. Its so sad to see that she tara im in this state right now burch everyone does are going to see my river so dirty up on them too but im going to look at the possibility. So who are these companies dumping their waste water into the river. We consult a list of textile factories along the river and a map showing their locations. Here we can see all the factories on the banks of the tarmac weve compiled data from the ministry of commerce to provide a clearer picture 75 percent of their production is destined for export in particular to the american and european markets. One of the biggest export is in the country is the just text group. Getting access is difficult but the company eventually agrees to let us in. The factory has a workforce of 4 and a half 1000 just taxes cheap product is polyester fabric a Synthetic Material that requires a lot of chemicals to make. The group does most of its business with large clothing retailers. These buildings have around 1000. 00 machines running 24 hours a day 7 days a week. In total the factory turns out almost 3000000 meters of fabric a month. The fabric is produced using water that is full of chemicals. And. The we see water is then discharged into the settling tanks. This is always what the bit but. The size is. A myth that we have and i dont mean the length and then the depth is i dont think smith that it will look a lot for the shooting going to the boys likely. To be. Going to slowly. Move up every day. Only 5 parameters check daily compared to the 31 or more recommended by international. No standards. The right. Yes. I dont think so. But its not coming home maybe but. Still needs to be feel that hes going to doing but i mean its ok. You can pass but for me fish to have fun throw is what the tag i think i put in the hat if i dont get to teach them good. The itchy hand test is not exactly convincing the look of the fight. But the law is going down. The order. May be. They also must get on and we dont want to study up were curious to find out what the waste water discharged by this sub contractor of the Global Textile Industry really contains. Our search involves following this discreet white pipeline on the left which dumps the plants waste into the gitr. The overflow channel is hidden under 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. Theres another one right there a discharge outlet from the just x. Factory. Were now approaching the waste water pipe. 30 meters away the water is already covered with a film up white foam. Getting out of the voters of precarious maneuver. This is what just stacks did not want us to see. Were on the companys premises without authorization and have to be quick. We take 2 leaders of sample water to analyze later. As we proceed down the cheap tar on the smoke from another factory catches our attention. It belongs to lens ing a Global Leader in artificial fibers. The austria base. Company supplies most of the worlds biggest clothing brands this bacillus he too has gigantic settling tanks. Of villagers shows us the factories overflow channel. And then on the banks of the gitr. On 0 there were no. What a stand on. The stink is almost suffocating. Its here 300 meters away from the factory that lensing disposes of its waste out of sight and alarmingly close to fields and houses. A yellow and black blowup waste that ends in the river. In this case we have more time so we test the water on the spot using an analysis kit for various pollutants that was recommended by a scientist. Can you hear me professor. Loud and clear professor ben id like you is a chemist specializing in water pollution. If what youre the 1st analysis be. Chromium because cro mates are often used in the textile industry. Thats why i suggested it to you as an indicator. Chlorides can be an indicator of pollution. As are arsenic nitrates ammonium. 10 milligrams of phosphate per liter on body difference thats. The results only provide a rough assessment of the pollution. For a more accurate reading im going to take some water samples for a laboratory to analyze later. There are rice fields here just a matter of meters away. Rice is the main crop along the tara. Is one of the farmers affected. Look how rotten everything is. What i see. So whats wrong with the rice plants i didnt like 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 of specially aphids little bit of. Kanu civs fields are literally surrounded by textile factories. The water that hera gates has rice fields has an unappetizing purple collar and foam on its surface. What pollutants are hiding in this rice. I want this to rise before i dont know never do. We take our samples of rice and water to the institute of ecology john sharon university. Thats the means youre going to ok thats going to go for you. Writes. Professor sonority sooty on to runs the only lab for environmental analyses in the region and. Was the lead. Basis sure. Medically also cadmium lead. Productive it is Something Like. Thank you. I continued thank you good to see you. Not far from the factories while we wait for the results we invite some of the women and children of the village to take part in a test. We offer them a hair analysis to get a more precise picture of the toxins they are exposed to. Its a delicate undertaking for expert advice we get price up and sell around the line. More can you hear me professor. Yes hes a leading expert on Testing Solutions with hair samples and is head of human bio Monitoring Research at the Luxembourg Health institute. Whats the point of hair analysis compared to blood or urine tests. Blood or urine test gives us information about the few hours before the sampling with hair its different. The speed of growth is around one centimeter per month and its 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 individuals chronic exposure. Whats found in the hair has passed through the body and through the blood system. 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 samples from the hair of 10 children from the same neighborhood stage between 12 months and 14 years on. We send them straight to professor up and sell her in luxembourg. As were leaving town we receive a phone call from the environmental activists we met on a raft trip. Up the high emotion 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 next to the torah. So part. Of. The Pan Asia Group is one of the largest subcontractors in indonesias 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 dont know i love. The water is dirty the smell is unbearable. You know how do you. Think you want isnt snow. Going to get a villager i talked to told me to put on a mask if i go closer to the water big. Because its true that even from here we can smell it. And its pretty strong. Thank you. Thank you thank you its really hot and the smell is unbearable. Thank. You dont check out the color of the water. Look. At the bottom out here. Ok. Thank you. Ok. Thank you so much thank you. For this time were unable to send the sample to professor city antos laboratory in bond on the provincial capital of west java. Instead it goes to a lab in france that specializes in environmental studies. In the meantime the results are back from the 1st samples of water and rice we gave to professor sooty antos. He asks us to take them to the rice field where we took the samples. He wants to see it for himself because his findings are so astonishing. One thing. From chromium. By the plants. Its very high 20. 8. 00 milligrams but it will be found at. A lead. Concentration on the body plans is much how you think of the sound of the limits. On 29. 00 maybe 4 kilograms where the standard only. 20 by 21 times. Were going to increase this is a. Little body especially for children who lead this very dangerous. Lead. And therefore system would send all of it but our system so. If the children exposed to lead then they will have. Intellectual disability and its. A worse effect. I believe that the men. From the. Textile industries. The government would have very strict standards then invest over not come in. But you know if there is no standard for many of us then we sacrifice the people. The rice growing along that your torah is sold all across indonesia. Its contaminated with lead 116. 00 times the indonesian standard for public consumption. The levels are so high due to the concentration of heavy metals accumulating in the rice fields this lead pollution seems to be in concur with soon already sooty on to other results from testing wastewater emitted from textile factories the waste emerging from the just text discharge outfall contains one and a half times the level of lead permitted by International Standards and the situation is even more alarming with the lensing factory with the waste water lead content times higher and thats not all another parameter stands out. Releases 7087. 00 milligrams per liter into the river. Almost 10 times the global recommendation excessive levels of sulfates in water can lead to diarrhea especially among children well this is one of the main causes of an mortality in the country 147000 in the nation children die each year before the age of 5. Finally we receive our results from the French Laboratory for the pan a shoe factory where we took the water samples at night and we go through the findings at the home of danny respond dani the activist from the yelling don Conservation Group when we get. Into that. We also bring in the man who conducted the pan a show water analysis. Professor ben affleck who were you. The chemist who specializes in water pollution. What do you say to the results 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. Its 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. Thats high right. Thats above the Environmental Standards in force in europe. And not all females are products that are end the current disruptors. Not all females are arent 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 do can the water be used in farming no no it shouldnt be used for your occasions. How about washing or washing food. No its really 2 septic each of the water is one fouled so what should we do we dont have a choice were dependent on this water. The daily lives here and asks what they can do to use the water anyway because they dont 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 particles suspended in it so at least boil it. My main advice is to not drink it. Sort of the reality im sad for myself and the residents along the cheeto are on it. Because the victims of this pollution dont know anything about the degree of danger they are exposed to and are. Through so here are the documents down here. 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 didnt know exactly what pollutants there were in the water. Thank you. So who are the major fashion brands being supplied by the factories polluting the chip tarm river. We browsed through dozens of clothing items. The labels reveal which ones are made in indonesia. Here look at best made in indonesia. Just what about h. And m. Made in indonesia. Made in indonesia a bit is. We then acquire lists of the indonesian sub contractors supplying these big brands the factories we took the waste water samples from are among those on the list. And as you say yeah but. This company is registered as one of h. And m. Subcontractors. Then asia also works with other brands like japans unique low. It was in the Pan Asia Groups water that we found high levels of novel pheno a powerful hormone disruptor. The just x. Plant with high lead content in its waste water is also subcontracted by unique low. And lensing the plant with record sulphate levels in its waste Water SuppliesCompanies Like americas gap and british retailer a sows and marks and spencer and once again h. And m. And unique low. Swedish clothing giant h. And m. Has a branch in indonesia based in chicago. Its had offices here on the 21st floor we had already tried to contact them by email but to no avail. Then to our great surprise. The head of h. And m. Indonesia agrees to talk to us. If you can. We do but continue filming on a smartphone. And i understand. Yeah. This is. A little interesting specially that. Ocean from this is that does that surprise you is it something youve seen before. You know i do not ask the questions today and. I will go back and look at. That you get. You. Yes yes. 3 weeks later we received a written reply from h. And m. We are sincerely concerned by the subject of your report. H m 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 plant and lensing concerns the entire textile industry this is an important challenge that we will solve with the entire industry will continue to choose the best possible alternatives regarding the panny body factory we have carried out independent audit the last in july 2017. Despite repeated requests this h. And m. Supplier never authorized us to test its wastewater again. Japanese brand unique low likewise implicated responded as follows. The analysis we had access to did not take into account the presence of lead. Then saw fate 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 a ship gyro body plant after your investigation we consulted reports that show levels of normal females and delegates that are below your results however we commissioned independent experts to investigate any greater depth on site. These are just a couple of countless examples 252 clothing brands work within the nation sub contractors who dumped toxic waste water into the tara. The big fashion firms here are all the 1000000000 had to a. P. I. The indonesian textile industry association. It represents a key sector of the economy with an annual turnover of 10000000000 euros e. G. Is me as the lobby groups executive secretary. Would you drink is one of this is this comes from beijing for this one of your members we do this whether you use it for you or. I use that. Even if you saw that all the. Were not just. Looking for the environment when you see the. Book. And then. And the both of those seem. So the greens of you yes. At the end its called money and clothes. And then it is. As a father does that make you feel just today children living around factories Something Like this if a whole new set i think maybe the next 50 years or. This x. Man you know. And thats. Maybe 15 thing here we have no. But this isnt a laughing matter. The textile lobby spokesman doesnt recognise the impact of the industry on the health of those living near the tara. And time is now of the essence. Couldnt the indonesian government take steps to avoid this chemical contamination before its too late. Mr oh you will follow us thank you for taking some time at the Environment Ministry the official in charge of pollution control agrees to meet us if he reads our analyses and seems a little taken aback. By the. Information. I think i will. Take. This number were going to. Need. And we also know of the. Line for textile industry would be worth if. Those long before we. d finally some good news for the people affected news thats quickly overshadowed by the latest results of our investigation. The hair analysis. Professor up and sellers 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 childrens hair is that a number that you often see or is it unusually high. Drought or shifty 4 out of 140. 00 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 its just the tip of the iceberg. We pass on these results to the mothers of the children we took samples from. If the children fall ill again these tests might help specialists to provide a better and quicker diagnosis. In total we took care from 45. 00 children living near textile factories. For the 1st time professor often seller will include indonesia in his new scientific survey. At the end of our journey there is a glimmer of hope what if it were possible to produce clothing along that should tara while taking into account the environment and the health of local residents a challenge thats been taken on by this large Textile Factory the only one in the country to have received International Certification for high standards of sustainability. Here the waste water flows up and down in the settling tanks and is filtered and reacts it generated in the process. The solid materials are separated and then recycled. In total there are 12 treatment stages. And still it is what. Theyre left thinking what theyre. Good for a laugh that. This is the law exam. You see on the way there. And is that. Fail or just a. Little for the enlightenment theyve been making. They call it this place and. Maybe they dont know yet but i. Hear theyre looking for ideas and hopefully they can get. The fabrics turned up by this factory are 10 percent more expensive than those of its in the nation competitors. Is that the price for the chips harlem to once again become the most sacred river in the country and stead of the most polluted in the world. To keep pace with growing Global Demand tec stop production in indonesia is expected to increase by 75 percent by 2030. 1 ta ta major brands can surely no longer look away too many victims are paying the human cost for the clothing industrys dirty secret. The bunsen deafening law books summer music systems. This year theyre modestly quant. Or even silent. Is their music playing anywhere. 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