Drought, East Jakarta Klender Residents Must Wait 25 Minutes To Get One Ember Water

Illustration of water taps/ Photos: Bitor Ekin P

JAKARTA - The impact of the long dry season that hit Jakarta and its surroundings continues to be complained of by the affected communities. Residents in RT 07/10, Klender Village, Duren Sawit District, East Jakarta, complained about the difficulty of getting water in the midst of a long dry season.

Residents feel that the flow of water for their daily needs is starting to shrink, and even dry up.

Priyadi (48), a local resident, admitted that the water drought that occurred in her area due to the long dry season that had been running since 2 months ago. If you want to get water with a 25 liter discharge, it will need to spend up to five minutes.

"The impact of the dry season, the water discharge is smaller than usual. On weekdays before the dry season, to fill water in one bucket is only one minute, but now it can be 25 minutes," he told reporters, Tuesday, October 17.

Priyadi explained, to get the water discharge back to normal, his party needed to dig deeper into the water source currently owned by three houses in the vicinity. However, he and the affected residents were constrained by the cost of extracting water.

Residents also hope that the East Jakarta City Government can provide clean water supply assistance for residential areas during this long dry season.

"Hopefully there will be assistance from the government or a PAM channel or a water source is made from a deeper well whose source is greater, because if this is the solution, we have to dig deeper," he said.

In addition to experiencing difficulties in getting clean water, residents also experience other problems due to the impact of the dry season.

Head of RT 07/10, Matzen added, the water sources produced from residents' wells emitted a lot of unpleasant odors. The local government is expected to be able to take quick action in helping residents.

"In this location, it used to be a swamp, so the water was not clean, that's why we always buy water for consumption. For bathing using Sanyo water, now Sanyo water is getting duller and dirty, the term smells different too," he complained.