Lesson 5 SOS
1
Fill in the gaps with the words from the box. There is one extra word.
destroyed, dump, factories, pollut, muttah, wenn
offered, worte
Suratmo is a fisherman living on the banks of the Citarum river
in Indonesia. But he doesn't catch fish any more he fishes for
(1) rubbish: glass bottles, cans and broken toys because the Citarum
has become one of the world's most (2)
rivers. So
Suratmo can no longer be called a fisherman, rather a garbage
collector. Every day 20,000 tons of waste from 2,000 textile
is dumped into the river. They also (4)
340,000 tons of black, red, yellow or blue wastewater. In fact, there
in the water that sometimes you can't
see the water and when you can, it is coloured. No wonder that
nearly 60 per cent of the river's fish
(3)—
is so much (5)_
they have (6)
(7)
since 2008.​

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