Comment: City to build new water plant, pipeline
| Sat, 09/25/2010 11:34 AM
Sept 22, p9: Considering the highly polluted state water is in when it reaches the
treatment plant in Kali Malang, East Jakarta, Jakarta administration is
planning to build a water purification plant at Jatiluhur reservoir in
West Java and pipe clean water to city residents directly. “I have asked [the administration] to accelerate the feasibility study
for this project so we can improve Jakarta’s water supply within two or
three years,” Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said Monday. Jakarta’s clean water supply depends on a water treatment plant in Kali Malang, which treats water from Jatiluhur reservoir. Unfortunately, however, the
quality of water the Kali Malang plant produces is often low because of the highly polluted water it
treats.
Your comments:
Ok. well, that sounds good. But what I really would like to know is who
are the end users of this water? Where’s it going? And how much will a
liter of it cost?
Thomas Belfield
Honolulu
