Wida Widiarti has spent her entire life near the Citarum River on Indonesia's main island of Java. That means she has witnessed first-hand how the river mutated from an important lifeline into a ...

Factory waste, including dyes from the many textile factories in the region, stain a jackfruit and discarded cloth on a tributary of the Citarum river on Aug. 27, 2018, outside Bandung, Java, ...

There are many rivers on earth. According to various sources, their number ranges from 2.5 to 4 billion. Throughout the history of mankind, rivers have been a source of life and prosperity, but the ...

From the highways of Los Angeles to the Citarum River of Bandung, Indonesia, earth’s most polluted city of Linfen, China to the streets of London, the world is laden with man-made pollution. From the ...

Suratmo, a fisherman living on the banks of the Citarum River, could only laugh softly when asked about his catch today. He replied that he could no longer be called a fisherman. For the last five ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's president on Thursday said water from the Citarum River should be made drinkable within seven years under a new cleanup project for the Java island river often ranked ...

A fisherman was hoping to hook a specimen worth hundreds of dollars Sunday in an Indonesia fishing tournament. But when he reeled in his line, he was shocked to discover the "big one' he had landed ...

Wida Widiarti has spent her entire life near the Citarum River on Indonesia’s main island of Java. That means she has witnessed first-hand how the river mutated from an important lifeline into a ...

That means she has witnessed first-hand how the river mutated from an important lifeline into a disgusting symbol of extreme environmental pollution. Time and again, the Citarum has been described in ...