16.08.2022
"Sungai Watch" Reached the 120th Barrier Milestone in Protecting Indonesian Rivers
Clean rivers lead to a cleaner ocean. In the war against plastic pollution, Sungai Watch has installed 120 trash barriers to protect rivers in Bali, Indonesia. Sungai Watch (River Watch) is a community river cleanup organization with a mission to protect the waterways. Sungai Watch utilizes TrashBarriers to strain rivers, preventing waste from passing through to the ocean. Three types of TrashBarriers with different materials to suit various river sizes are used: Mini Floater, Floater, and Walker. The biggest barrier so far resides on Yeh Sungi river, which is 37m wide and Bali’s second most polluting river. The careful structure and installation of TrashBarriers allow marine life to pass through freely. Sungai Watch builds all of the barriers in-house. To this day, this organization keeps finding new ways to create better, more sustainable barriers. Volunteers—called River Warriors—and workers do weekly river cleanups. They take the waste intercepted by the barriers to Sungai Watch Research Station for washing, sorting, and data-taking purposes. These data are processed and analyzed for River Plastic Report. Today, Sungai Watch has 100 barriers protecting 92 rivers in 28 villages around Bali, 3 Research Stations, a team of 50 staff, and hundreds of volunteers. This environmental organization is currently researching and developing ways to create value out of garbage, such as making bricks from plastic waste. Credit: DW
Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
