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A combination photograph shows outdoor toilets along a stretch of the Citarum River before it enters the Java Sea northwest of Muara Gembong, West Java. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A worker collects sand from the bottom of the Citarum River to make bricks, near Majalaya. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

Men fish in a polluted tributary of the Citarum River, near Majalaya. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A woman sells saltwater fish from the Java Sea at her roadside stand next to the Citarum River, southeast of Muara Gembong, West Java. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A shopkeeper chats with customers after heavy seasonal rains caused the Citarum River to flood Dayeuhkolot, south of Bandung, on Feb. 23. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Farmers cross a stream in Tarumajaya village near Lake Cisanti, the main source of the Citarum River, in the mountains south of Bandung. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Women board a small boat used as a ferry to cross the Citarum River southeast of Bandung. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A woman pushes her scooter down a flooded street in Dayeuhkolot after the Citarum River burst its banks. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Women do their laundry in water from a tributary of the Citarum River in Majalaya. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Wastewater is treated at a textile factory before being released into a stream that joins the Citarum River in Majalaya. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A woman uses her mobile phone while wading through a flooded street in Dayeuhkolot. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Floating fish farms are seen on the Jatiluhur Reservoir, part of the Citarum River basin, near Purwakarta, West Java. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Men guide a boat carrying sand past an area where a section of the Citarum River is joined by a polluted tributary, which runs through an area densely populated with textile factories near Majalaya. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A fisherman operates his boat at the mouth of the Citarum River northwest of Muara Gembong, West Java, on Feb. 22. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Rolls of cloth are stacked in the warehouse of a textile factory that has its own water treatment facilities near the Citarum River in Majalaya. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Farmers plant rice close to the Citarum River near Muara Gembong. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A soldier cuts away garbage wrapped around the propeller on a pontoon boat during a cleanup operation along the Citarum River, south of Bandung, on Feb. 13. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Students walk through rice fields near Majalaya. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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Ferrymen guide a boat across the Citarum River, southeast of Muara Gembong. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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A farmer works in a rice paddy near a stream that flows into the Citarum River, near Pacet in the mountains south of Bandung. (Reuters Photo/Darren Whiteside)

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By : REUTERS | on 8:04 PM March 02, 2018

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