India: How our clothes cause water pollution

India has a water pollution job. One big, and often unseen culprit is Western consumerism. I travel to India’s textile capital Tiruppur to witness the impact the fashion industry is having on its sacred rivers and the lives they sustain.

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Read more:

Fashion Industry and the environment
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0039-9)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scientific discipline/article/pii/B9780081026335000063
https://www.hope.uzh.ch/scoms/article/view/j.scoms.2018.02.012

Consumer responsibleness
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scientific discipline/article/abs/pii/S0959652617304092
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/8/4/24

Sustainable business models
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scientific discipline/article/abs/pii/S0959652618303056
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-51253-2_3

Author: Aditi Rajagopal
Camera: Deepti Rao, Nitye Sood
Video editor: Henning Goll
Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer