Fishing in polluted waters

In Long Jawe, a village on Malaysia's Bakun Reservoir in Borneo, fishermen are reporting that the fish they depend on for food and income are dying off as the water becomes polluted.

The village is remote enough that most residents make the five-hour trip to the nearest town only once a year, and the reservoir, created by flooding the surrounding landscape in the 1990s, has since become central to transport, food and livelihood there.

A reporting team is investigating the source of the pollution, though the feed summary does not yet identify a cause or a responsible party.

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