Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation

Clean up the river!

Clean up the river!

8 September 2011

Prigi Arisandi explains how a local movement is stopping industrial pollution from flowing into a river that provides drinking water for three million people in and around the Indonesian city of Surabaya.

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