ADB: a Clean Future for World's Dirtiest River

ADB has approved a US$ 500 million loan to clean up the Citarum River, the worlds most polluted river. Rapid urbanization and industrial growth have resulted in growing quantities of sewage, solid waste and industrial effluents being dumped in the Citarum River, compromising public health and the livelihoods of poor fishing families. ADB assistance will provide safe water and sanitation facilities for poor families who currently use polluted river water for bathing, laundry and other uses; help provide 25,800 farming families with new paddy land; provide 200,000 households in Jakarta with piped water; increase Jakartas overall water supply by 2.5% annually; and support the construction of solid waste facilities and wastewater treatment plants to enhance environmental protection efforts.

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• Asian
• Developoment
• Bank
• ADB
• Citarum
• River
• Indonesia
• Jakarta
• dirtiest
• polluted
• environment
• water
• sanitation
• fish
• livelihoods
• poor
• families
• poverty
• sewage
• waste
• jobs
• land
• health
• integrated
• resource
• management
• urbanization
• industrial
• growth
• degradation
• food
• communities
• participation

[garioldwin]

the pollution is probably caused by the rapid increase of population. in indonesia every parents have 10 children each. there is the problem.

[ThePilipina08]

makes me sad.i love nature.why some people dont care or dont know how to kept clean and green world.my x livin partner work as a enviromental project in Philippines MMDA MANILA but sad coz pilipino workers not so focus to der works.plan that is dead,words that is dead,voice that is dead not good at all.who and when my country Philippines will became clean country on earth?

[environmentalactivis]

@garioldwin Yes there is a population problem, but the reason these people are having so many children is because 1. they are very poor and therefore do not have money to buy condoms (god forbid they'd get them for free like we do) and 2. because they need to make money to simply live.

[cruxan007]

are humans the smartest tool in the shed.??? one only needs eyes to see we are one of the lowest forms of parasite that ever walked the surface of the planet..

[OsonimateK]

Where are we going?

[MrOrange282]

sad



[richardmtl]

good luck!

you're gonna need it

[Mark3967808]

Wow. And I thought the pasig river is the dirtiest. But it's going to be clean again becuz it will bring shame If we don't clean it. All we need to do now is to make our polluted water clean.

[LaChulaKc]

This is Sad n' Disgusting .. oh my goodness ... They really have to do something about it

[ecrdab747]

the ganges river of India look like an oasis compared to this

[TwapsDutch]

this is sick.