Why Does PAM Jaya Water Flow Often Die At Night? This Is The Explanation

Illustration of PAM water flow installation (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Air PAM in a number of areas often flows with small discharges, even die at night. President Director of Perumda PAM Jaya Arief Nasrudin explained the cause.

Arief emphasized that as a regional company that serves piped water in Jakarta, PAM Jaya has never stopped the flow of water to people's homes. However, there are special arrangements regarding water pressure at certain hours.

"The flow of water is 24 hours. There is a regime or traffic regulation in it. Actually the water doesn't stop," Arief told reporters, Wednesday, February 28.

He admitted, PAM Jaya deliberately reduces the water pressure distributed at night. Because, usually people do not use water during rest time.

"So when in one area that night the water dies, it's not dead because of the pressure we reduce. We don't use it like afternoon pressure," he explained.

Why is that? If the water pressure is channeled similar during the day, this will increase the potential for pipe leakage due to the lack of water coming out of the tap.

"The more water is not used, the more leaking it is, because our pipes are varied. Some are from 101 years old, until some are still 0 years old," said Arief.

To overcome water difficulties at night, Arief said that his party was building a communal reservoir as a water reservoir that was not used at night.

Furthermore, the water that has been accommodated will be flowed to the homes of residents who receive the least flow from water treatment installations.

"That's the point why we do communal reservoirs. So, at certain points, the pipes are old, at night we fill the water into the communal reservoir, so that the water flows. Unfortunately, not all points we have built a communal reservoir," explained Arief.