by Adil | 10:35 AM in
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The dirtiest river in the world
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River Tsitarum (Citarum) located on the island of Java in Indonesia. Once it has been slowly flowing river, which the fishermen throwing their nets, sea birds and hunted his own food. Local residents took from the river water for their household needs. River water was filled with numerous irrigation canals to irrigate the rice fields.
Today, the river is Tsitarum in ecological catastrophe, breathless tones of household waste produced nine million people, and the emissions of hundreds of plants.
The carpet of debris on the surface of the river is so tight that the only reminder that there is water, a small wooden fishing boat, floating down the river.
Passengers boats are no longer trying to catch fish. Now much more profitable to make a living catching stuff from the water, which former fishermen can then sell - it's plastic bottles, broken chair legs, rubber gloves. At best, the collectors make their craft 1-2 pounds per week, daily risking catching some disease.
More than 500 factories, many of which produce textile products, which requires chemical processing, are located along the 200-mile river, spewing waste into its waters. There is no such luxury as a service to receive garbage.
Do not exist here, and modern restrooms. All just blends into the water. Dirty water is absorbed into the soil in rice fields, and families risk their health by taking her for drinking, cooking and washing.
Only 20 years ago it was a beautiful place, then the river has served the people living along its banks.
The decline of the river began with the rapid industrialization in the late 1980s. Majestic Tsitarum soon became a storehouse of junk for the plants. Moreover, the negative effect will spread further: Tsitarum - one of two major rivers feeding the lake Saguling (Saguling), in which the French engineers built the largest hydroelectric power plant in West Java.
Experts predict that the river was soon clogged debris so that it overwhelmingly fall, and GES generator will not work properly. Then the area around the sink in the darkness, but at least, the plants also stop, and the waste stream is interrupted.
