Ciliwung SPAM Will Serve Clean Water Can Be Directly Drink In 2023

Ciliwung River area in the Gedong area, Pasar Rebo, Jakarta, February 2019. (Antara-Hafidz Mubarak A)

JAKARTA - Perumda PAM Jaya continues to increase the coverage of drinking water services in 2023, one of which is sourced from the Ciliwung River Drinking Water Supply System (SPAM) in the South Jakarta area.

PAM Jaya Service Director Syahrul Hasan revealed that although using raw water from the Ciliwung River, this new SPAM will extract clean water that can be directly drunk.

Later this clean water will be distributed to residents in Rawa Jati Village, Pancoran Village, Duren Tiga Village, Cikoko Village and East Pejaten.

"Interestingly, the water can be drunk directly, so those who live in the Pancoran and Pejaten Timur areas will be able to drink their water immediately, God willing, in 2023," said Syahrul in a discussion in Jakarta, quoted on Sunday, July 31.

Syahrul said that the water flowing through the Ciliwung SPAM can be drunk because it uses a new pipe installation. Unlike the case with water that has been flowing using old pipes, so it has the potential to be contaminated with E. Coli bacteria.

"Why then can the water be drunk? Because from the start of the pipe installation, the water goes to the new pipe. Now, the pipe that just enters the residents' faucet is guaranteed to be drinkable," said Syahrul.

This project, said Syamsul, is one of the efforts to achieve the target of 100 percent of Jakarta's pipeline network by 2030. Currently, only about 68 percent of the Jakarta area is served by piped water.

Furthermore, currently PAM Jaya also relies on water flow from Jatiluhur (Citarum) as much as 75 percent, then water flow from Tangerang (Cisadane) as much as 15 percent and which is managed by PAM Jaya itself from rivers in Jakarta by five percent with a capacity of 1,000 LPS.

"Therefore, programs such as the WTP development project, including river normalization, construction of dams, lake maintenance and so on by the DKI Provincial Government can be a source of water that can be managed in the future to increase supply. Our target is to supply 1-1.5 million more customers for 100 percent service," said Syahrul.

Therefore, he estimates that the installation of new water pipelines will not be too much in order to make up for the shortfall of around 3,000 kilometers (km) to increase the current network coverage of 12 thousand km of pipes.

"Because of the construction of the IPA, this year the addition of a new pipeline network is relatively small, maybe under 50 kilometers," he added.