The
environmental
impact
of
the
global
textile
industry
is
hard
to
____________________
.
One
-
third
of
the
water
used
worldwide
is
spent
fashioning
fabrics
.
For
every
ton
of
cloth
____________________
,
200
tons
of
water
is
polluted
with
chemicals
and
heavy
metals
.
An
estimated
1
trillion
kilowatt
-
hours
of
electricity
powers
the
factories
that
card
and
____________________
,
spin
and
weave
,
and
cut
and
stitch
materials
into
everything
from
T
-
shirts
to
towels
,
____________________
behind
mountains
of
solid
waste
and
a
massive
carbon
footprint
.
"
Where
the
industry
is
today
is
not
really
sustainable
for
the
long
term
,
"
says
Shreyaskar
Chaudhary
,
chief
executive
of
Pratibha
Syntex
,
a
textile
manufacturer
____________________
outside
Indore
,
India
.
With
something
of
an
"
if
you
build
it
,
they
will
come
"
attitude
,
Mr
.
Chaudhary
has
____________________
Pratibha
____________________
the
leading
edge
of
eco
-
friendly
textile
production
.
Under
his
direction
,
Pratibha
began
making
clothes
with
organic
cotton
in
1999
.
Initially
,
the
company
couldn't
find
enough
organic
farms
____________________
cotton
in
central
India
to
____________________
its
factories
.
To
meet
production
demands
,
Chaudhary's
team
had
to
convince
conventional
cotton
farmers
to
change
____________________
growing
methods
.
Pratibha
provided
seeds
,
cultivation
instruction
,
and
a
guarantee
of
fair
-
trade
prices
for
____________________
crops
.
Today
,
Pratibha
has
a
network
of
28
,
000
organic
cotton
growers
____________________
the
central
states
of
Madhya
Pradesh
,
Maharashtra
,
and
Orissa
.
