Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Indonesia’s Citarum River once gave life—now it’s toxic sludge. Discover how industry, politics, and plastic pushed it to the brink, and what it will take to save it. Watch now.Indonesia’s Citarum River once gave life—now it’s toxic sludge. Discover how industry, politics, and plastic pushed it to the brink, and what it will take to save it. Watch now.

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00:00 Introduction
01:10 A picture of the Citarum
07:30 The death of a river
12:05 The fight to save the Citarum
14:56 The consequences of polluting the Citarum
19:16 Cleaning the Citarum
22:20 The state of the Citarum today