Poisoned Waters : Fast Fashion Kills

The Citarum River in Indonesia, once a vital resource for millions, has become one of the most polluted rivers in the world. Industrial waste from over 500 textile factories has turned its waters into a toxic mix of chemicals, endangering the health of local communities and ecosystems.
Families suffer from diseases linked to contaminated water, while fish and crops dwindle. Investigations reveal alarming levels of pollutants in rice, water, and even children's hair.
As brands like H&M and Uniqlo face scrutiny, the question remains: can the global fashion industry clean up its act and save the Citarum before it’s too late?

Director : Martin Boudot

[firmankatoker]

Harus bersyukur karena ada orang yang mau meneliti dan peduli terhadap lingkungan di indonesia yang tercemar

[bejoakun]

Thank you very much for all your services, I really appreciate it as an Indonesian

[andiprayoga]

thank you, I hope that documentaries about environmental issues in Indonesia can be reproduced, so that more and more people are aware of the importance of protecting the environment for the future

[GlobeGo]

Wow, this hit hard. I used to think my biggest problem with fast fashion was shrinking my shirt in the wash—turns out it’s shrinking entire ecosystems. Hope brands start caring as much as we do about clean clothes AND clean rivers!

[abc_cba]

As an Indian, I would say that these places are still 2000 times clean than our scared river Ganges where people are only pushing the pathogens from their bodies into it.

[nbacct]

The Pasig River (Philippines) is a very good template that Indonesian govt and NGOs can emulate to save the Citarum river. Our Formee President Duterte has made a significant difference through his no nonsense leadership. It's a matter of political will and cooperation by various sectors.

[talesfromtheleashexpatdogl]

As a species, we do not deserve this planet

[kk-xjoz]

The amount of poison everywhere and the amount of cover up, just so that the 1% can become incredible rich is crazy 😢

[cumahiburan]

So many people "throw rubbish anywhere"

[aziris]

Look on the bright side, with almost a hundred factories closing in 2024, the Citarum should be on its way to recovery. Unless the other factories increase their pollution instead.

[himangshubailung]

Big brands are directly associated with the infant mortality in Indonesia or residents beside the river. This is not acceptable

[KingGorgon]

Orang" Indonesia patutnya berterima kasih kepada channel ini, terlebih kepada warga sekitaran sungai Citarum, bayangkan kalau tidak ada beliau, akan ada berapa banyak manusia yg mnjadi korban dari racun" yg terkandung pada daerah tersebut dan seluruh Indonesia.. semoga dengan video ini dapat membuka mata kita, terutama pemerintah untuk lebih memandang serius masalah ini, ujung ujungnya memang rakyat yg di suruh menanggung akibat dari keserakahan pabrik" ini, yg lebih lucunya si bapak yg pakai baju batik saat di tanyai oleh pemilik channel ini, dia malah tertawa dan tidak perduli dengan masyarakat 😢.

[andiprayoga]

Terimakasih untuk videonya, semoga konten isu lingkungan di Indonesia semakin banyak dan bisa menyadarkan pemerintah serta masyarakat sekitar

[jonhendrik]

Thank you best documentary and all the people who has involved to research this pollution water from the textile factory

[YarrowPressburg]

Got Agent Orange poisoning 50 years ago, from working on a commercial flower farm, so folks could have flowers for Valentines. Still have problems from that. That farm is still in business, probably a lot more sick workers, my manager died of cancer. This was in the USA.

[notruff]

For context: this is an old documentary IIRC, since I've watched this few months ago, I searched around & it seems to be premiered on 2019

I somewhat followed updates for this river's maintenance & for if you want to look up, it is coined under "Citarum Harum" project, which AFAIK is still ongoing to this day

The unfortunate things about this is that the cleanup activities on there is not a one-off thing to do, since the other thing that causes environmental damage is the fact that there were bunch of locally-sourced companies & jobs that people depend for their livelihood, and I don't think that it's fair if those are just demolished "for the greater good"

I don't know how to solve those tbh, but if I can think of any then it would probably for either the government or foreign companies to invest in the "processing site" like the one mentioned in the video that can at least filter out the dangerous stuff first, rather than just dumping it directly, since it seems that those kind of facilities just doesn't have enough capital to do so

[GalacticDMT]

This is criminal and unacceptable, such a shame for the good people of Indonesia.

[rubyyanto]

Yang saya heran masyarakat sekitarnya mengeluhkan air yang kotor tapi masih membuang sampah sembarangan.

[sahabatprabupedulilingkungan]

The river full of waste and rubbish is the Cikarang-Bekasi-Laut River (CBL) which flows into the Muara Gembong area, Bekasi Regency, West Java, Indonesia. It's terrible, the polluted water flows to the coast destroying coastal fishermen and pond fishermen. Starting from factory waste, plastic waste, to medical waste, it is often found there.

[pedrochaconacosta]

Señor Periodista le mando un verdadero abrazo y le Felicito por su gran investigacion para aliviar la salud de esa pobre gente Que Dios le siga iluminando en su profecion