Worse Than Last Year, This Time The Boyolali Regency Government Anticipated By Providing 1,000 Clean Water Tanks

Head of the Boyolali Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Widodo Munir in Boyolali, Thursday (8/6/2023). BETWEEN

BOYOLALI - The Boyolali Regency Government, Central Java, has prepared anticipation for the 2023 drought season which is expected to occur this month with a peak around September. Head of the Boyolali Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Widodo Munir said the Boyolali Regent had issued Circular Number 360/1336/5.4/2023 concerning Anticipation of Drought and Forest Fires and Land 2023. In addition, there is a Boyolali Regent Decree (SK) which states that the dry season is estimated from July to October 2023. Therefore, the Boyolali Regency Government provided a budget of around Rp. 200 million for the provision of 1,000 clean water tanks. The previous year, he said, the Boyolali Regency Government only dropped clean water to the community about 200 tanks, because in 2022 the dry season was relatively wet. However, this year it is estimated that the weather conditions are drier so that a budget for clean water is prepared more than the previous year. So far, according to him, no area in Boyolali has submitted a request for clean water assistance. "We are basically ready to face this year's drought season, which is expected to peak in September," he said in Boyolali, Antara, Thursday, June 8. Based on the mapping of drought-prone areas in Boyolali, among others, in Juwangi, Wonosegoro, Wonosamodro, Kemusu Tamansaari, Musuk, and Andong sub-districts. In addition, the Boyolali Regency BPBD has also prepared four clean water tanks of vehicles. If there is a request from the public, he said, his party will immediately send clean water to the location. He appealed to the public to remain alert to face drought, including by not throwing cigarette butts carelessly, especially in Wonosegoro, Kemusu, and Wonosamodro which owns forests. In addition, people are also asked to save clean water. He also hopes that people will plant many trees so that water deposits on the soil surface will last longer.

In addition, the community should make independent efforts to meet the water needs, for example by building their own wells. This year BPBD conducts research on water sources through geoelectricity and has been implemented in Wonosamodro and Boyolali sub-districts.