BPBD Records 7 Districts In Tangerang Affected By Drought Imbas El Nino

Illustration of drought as a result of the weather phenomenon of El Nino. (Freepic)

TANGERANG - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Tangerang Regency has begun to map areas prone to drought due to the long dry season as a result of the El Nino phenomenon.

Head of BPBD Tangerang Regency Ujat Sudrajat said the mapping was aimed at making it easier to anticipate and distribute aid to communities affected by El Nino.

"Of course this step is taken as an effort to make it easier to handle and anticipate the drought," he said in Tangerang, Friday, July 21, as reported by Antara.

He conveyed that for the Tangerang area, there were 7 sub-districts affected by El Nino. The sub-districts are Teluknaga, Kronjo, Pakuhaji, Kisambi, Gunung Kaler, Kresek and Rajeg.

Of the 7 sub-districts, Ujat explained that in general the drought that occurred had an impact on the community's clean water needs.

Nevertheless, his party also appealed to the public to start intensifying water-saving movements and to be able to take advantage of the rain that is still falling through the rainwater harvest movement and prepare a reserve water reservoir which can later be used for various needs during the peak of El Nino.

"Later, when it rains, people can start taking advantage of the water by collecting it. Then other things, we remind you that later when entering the dry season, do not burn garbage carelessly, especially in empty land, because it can cause a fire," he said.

He added that in facing the peak of El Nino, his party has also coordinated and communicated together with relevant agencies such as Perkim, PMI, DPKP, PDAM and so on.

"Because some of these agencies have the capacity to be responsible for helping residents regarding the long dry season," he said.

Previously, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) had reminded all parties regarding the impact caused by the El Nino phenomenon.

"So El Nino according to the predictions has started to occur in Indonesia since July. But according to the predictions, El Nino was still weak in early July," said Head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Dwikorita Karnawati, Thursday, July 20.

In this case, said Dwikorita, the impact of El Nino in early July was still less significant or less pronounced because El Nino was still weak.

However, a few days ago, according to the predictions, the El Nino index was getting stronger from the weak to moderate.

"Well, this is just starting to become moderate. That's why we continue to intensively appeal, remind, with El Nino getting more moderate or getting stronger, of course the impact will strengthen too," he said.

Thus, the peak of El Nino is predicted to take place in August-September and it will result in a dryer dry dry season than dry when there is no El Nino like in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

He said that if the conditions were getting drier, the impact would be land and forests being flammable. In addition, the impact given to farmers is because the water is getting less and less, so the agricultural sector will be disrupted.