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.
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