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35 million people rely on the Citarum River in Java, Indonesia, but it has become severely polluted with waste. Locals report that fish populations have declined by 60% over the past 40 years. A study found that villages dump their rubbish directly into the river. Within 30 miles, the river passes through industrial areas and villages, and the pollution starves the water of oxygen and kills fish. The contaminated water is used by villagers for drinking, bathing, cleaning, and irrigation, threatening their health.

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35 million people rely on the Citarum River in Java, Indonesia, but it has become severely polluted with waste. Locals report that fish populations have declined by 60% over the past 40 years. A study found that villages dump their rubbish directly into the river. Within 30 miles, the river passes through industrial areas and villages, and the pollution starves the water of oxygen and kills fish. The contaminated water is used by villagers for drinking, bathing, cleaning, and irrigation, threatening their health.

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 35 Million people rely on the Citarum River on the islands of Java Indonesia, but it’s become a toxic river

of waste.

 A study by the World  30 miles upstream, here the


You can Herman, one of the locals Bank found almost all river passes through Majalaya
barely see the people said “ 40 years ago when of these villages dump major industrial areas and the
river it’s just I started fishing. It was easy to their rubbish by the village where the local people
covered in get a good catch. And since than river. Within 200 miles live.
60 percent of the fish species the rubbish starves the
plastics. There’s have been wiped out. water of oxygen.
all kinds of
rubbish here from
: shoes &
nappies.
If the water is killing a
fish, what effect it’s
having on the people ?

So many people in this area use


 Urgent action needs to be
taken to stop the pollution.
FYI
 Sometimes the water that people
use for their daily needs is mixed
the only water source from
Citarum river for drink, take a
bath, brush their teeth, washing the
The biggest concern
is for the villagers
youngest residents
because many of them
 Goverments work together with the waste water from the dishes or clothes etc. (If people
textile industry and sewers. get rash from the water.
to developing village don’t use a rag to filter the water,
infrastucture, education,  More than people in this region the clothes will give rash).
and health care. working in the industries. Sometimes
 Organizing an they feels ironic, conflicated and
concerned but they need to eat so Many of these people who lives around the padi fields use
environmental campaign. water from the river for irrigation. This is very dangerous
they must have to work there.
to human health because the waste water from the
 People here know this is dangerous industrial has a heavy metals like mercury. And people who
but they have no option. drink this water are at risk getting cancer, mental
retardation, very slow growth especially in children.

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