27.10.2019 – On October 26 2019, Boyan Slat presented the plan to address the main source of ocean plastic: rivers. Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/371k8sN
27.10.2019 After re-engineering his ocean plastic-cleaning device, Boyan Slat’s The Ocean Cleanup has revealed a new machine that intercepts as much as 120,000 pounds per day of plastic in rivers.
17.01.2010 Only days after we unveiled The Ocean Cleanups solution for rivers, the Interceptor, Boyan Slat (Founder and CEO), embarked on a ten-day tour of Southeast Asia, where Interceptors are and will be installed, to meet with local stakeholders. Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/371k8sN It was an eventful trip, filled with inspiring conversations, great views, and plenty of picture-worthy moments. Want to help out? Take ocean cleaning into your own hands. Get on board: http://products.theoceancleanup.com
21.11.2019 Watch how the MMDA are removing water hyacinths from the Pasig River to ensure the Ferry Service can operate without disruption.
13.11.2019 Infamous for their dark, filthy and shallow waters, Jakarta’s waterways might best represent the many urban woes the capital city faces, but an experimental device designed to prevent plastic waste reaching the oceans may also help with cleaning efforts in the city’s rivers and canals.
26.10.2019 In order to clean the world’s 1000 most polluting rivers, we built the Interceptor. The second of these Interceptors is deployed on the river Klang, Malaysia. Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/371k8sN
30.09.2019 The river that runs through the Kenyan capital once teemed with life. Today it’s the most polluted waterway in the country. Together with young residents from the city’s informal settlements, Frederick Okinda is working to change that.
9.07.2019 The Fox River, New Zealand. Medical waste, needles and asbestos have been found among the rubbish which poured out of an old landfill three months ago.
26.04.2019 This is the story how one man’s actions can change the world. Afroz Shah cleaned the most polluted beach in India. UN called it the biggest cleanup project in the world. #trashtag#trashtagchallenge
3.04.2019 The Ganges is one of the world’s most famous rivers, but for years it’s been damaged by heavy pollution and overuse. For the millions who rely on it for drinking and washing, it can be hazardous.
2.03.2019 A clean-up of one of the world’s most polluted rivers is taking longer than expected. Every day, about 20,000 tonnes of waste and 340,000 tonnes of wastewater are dumped in the Chittarum in Indonesia. Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi reports from Bandung, in West Java, on why it’s such a tough job.
22.10.2018 Lucid waters are invaluable. How a once polluted moat in south China’s Guangzhou becomes a sought-after recreational spot.
1.08.2018 As more floating objects are washed up during the flood season, sanitation workers like this couple in Chongqing are dedicated to keeping China’s longest river cleaner and healthier.
20.04.2018 April 22 is Earth Day and this year’s focus is on plastic and raising awareness of the enormous pollution problem it creates. Almost all of the plastic waste found in the world’s oceans comes from just 10 rivers – and eight of them are in Asia. The organizers of Earth Day say plastic is threatening the planet’s survival.
12.03.2018 This Aquatic Weed Harvester can gather weeds and excessive amounts of trash in waterways of all sizes.
10.03.2018 Faced with a health emergency after decades of failed clean-up efforts, Jakarta is now stepping in with a seemingly impossible goal: make the Citarum’s water drinkable by 2025. The World Bank declared it the most-polluted river in the world a decade ago, a description widely picked up by media and environmentalists. It regularly appears on most-polluted lists alongside India’s Ganges river, the Mississippi river in the United States and China’s Yellow river. Research has shown it has alarming levels of toxic chemicals, including 1,000 times more lead than the US standard for safe drinking water.
4.02.2018 TRASH EVERYWHERE!!! Absolutely disgusting – soda cans, beer bottles, toys, and mysterious bags among other waste littered the banks and the water… I was inspired to help clean up one of my favorite rivers to fish in by a good samaritan who instigated this fishing community clean-up!
22.11.2017 The boats scoop up floating waste and bring it to shore to be collected.
13.02.2015 The Ganges is a source of food and water, and worshipped as a goddess along its length. But the river and its tributaries are also poisoned in parts by sewage and industrial waste. The FT’s Victor Mallet looks at the future of India’s sacred river.
18.04.2014 Cleaning the Sabarmati River, Gujarat, India.
17.11.2014 Pete McBride takes a photographic and scientific journey along India’s sacred waterway, the Ganges, which is revered as a god but struggles with a detrimental pollution problem.
2.05.2012 Thousands of volunteers gathered at the Los Angeles River recently for an annual cleanup of the urban waterway. VOA’s Mike O’Sullivan reports many residents know the river as a concrete drainage channel, but a major effort is underway to restore it to its natural state.
23.05.2011 The Pasig River in the Philippines was a clear, flowing body of water that served as the center of commerce in Spanish colonial Manila in the 1800s. Stretching 27 kilometers, it connects Laguna Lake to Manila Bay and was the major source of water and livelihood of the many communities along its banks. People washed clothes in the shallower waters and fisher folks’ daily catch were always bountiful. The passenger boats that plied the river from the nearby province of Laguna to Manila and back served as the primary means of transportation. The Pasig river’s demise was a slow process that began in the 1930s, when fish migration from Laguna Lake decreased, and people stopped bathing and washing activities. By the 1970s, the river stank and turned black. Water quality dropped.
In 1989, the Philippine government began working with international partners to rehabilitate the river. Improvements have been made in the condition of the Pasig River, but it still has along way to go. The Asian Development Bank is working to improve the river alongside government agencies, academics, non-government organizations, and communities and businesses.
Special section on the clean up of the Rhine River
The EU Water Framework Directive Citizens, environmental organisations, nature, water-using sectors in the economy all need cleaner rivers and lakes, groundwater and bathing waters. Water protection is therefore one of the priorities of the Commission. European Water Policy should get polluted waters clean again, and ensure clean waters are kept clean. The following will provide an overview on development, present state and future of European Water Policy.
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) became part of UK law in December 2003. As this short film shows it’s not all about legislation – it’s about delivering considerable improvements in the quality of rivers, focusing on ecology.
Greenprint for rescuing the Rhine: Orthodox methods for cleaning up the Rhine have been only partially successful. Now the nations responsible are starting to back the ecologists’ vision of a river fit for salmon [22.06.1993] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13818794-800/#ixzz6FKvokrhP
Protecting water from pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges that we face. In recent decades, major disasters like the Sandoz incident in 1986 demonstrated that pollution knows no frontiers and that strong EU actions and cooperation were needed. This detailed news report looks at the ways in which Europes determination to protect water in all its forms is achieving results. From the European quality of the drinking water, through the treatment of waste water, to protection of its rivers, coasts and lakes over the last few decades it has developed an effective legislative arsenal. The aim of the European Union is for all the water on its territory to by in good status by 2015. Although challenges remain, results are obvious. For example, in 2000, the EU adopted a directive promoting trans-boundary co-operation and introducing the river basin management concept where the territory of the river as a whole is taken into account. And in terms of bathing water, since 1990, the number of bathing sites fulfilling the EU standards has increased by almost 30% to an impressive 90%.
Religious, scientific, environmental and political leaders travel the Danube from Passau, Germany, to its delta on the Black Sea and explore the common ground between pragmatic environmental issues and the spiritual dimensions of nature.
Information on the Danube River Basin, its ecological resources and water management in balance with social and economic needs through the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR).
7.10.2010 Officials from several nations along the Danube, downstream from Hungary – Croatia, Serbia and Romania – have been testing the river on Thursday, hoping that the river’s huge water volume would blunt the impact of the Hungarian red toxic sludge spill. Europe’s second longest river, Danube flows through Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova before emptying into the Black Sea. The toxic sludge burst out of a metals plant reservoir and flooded three villages in Western Hungary, killing at least four people, injuring 120 and leaving three missing. It reached the mighty river Danube on Thursday, but a Hungarian emergency official said no immediate damage was evident. Experts are expecting contamination levels to peak over the weekend.
The Black Sea: Can Europe’s most polluted sea be saved? [ 28.11.2019 ]For decades the Black Sea has been treated as a dumping ground for agricultural and industrial waste from south eastern Europe – with things so bad that scientists considered parts of it almost entirely dead. But what has been done to turn things around and is there any prospect of an improvement? The BBC’s Jonah Fisher travelled across the region trying to find out if there’s any chance of the Black Sea cleaning up its act. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-50578326/the-black-sea-can-europe-s-most-polluted-sea-be-saved
