The lack of clean water has significantly affected the daily lives of residents, impacting health, education, and economic activities. Women from Makassar, supported by local NGOs, have taken action to demand government intervention and a long-term solution to the water crisis.
Exploitation of the forests of South Pagai and North Pagai Islands in the Mentawai Islands has caused indigenous women to have difficulty obtaining clean water.
In the 1960s, Indonesia’s Bandung experienced a textile boom that brought prosperity and jobs to the area. Today, locals complain of endemic pollution and health problems linked to unscrupulous factories dumping their waste in the city’s waterways.
Chemical pollution, siltation and agriculture waste have made West Java’s longest river one of the world’s dirtiest. Those working on its banks say efforts are being made to clean it up. But will they turn the tide?
