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More water for western Jakarta: Palyja
Water operator PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya (Palyja), which serves customers in western Jakarta, launched on Tuesday its latest water treatment technology, promising more water for 150,000 residents in its service area
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ater operator PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya (Palyja), which serves customers in western Jakarta, launched on Tuesday its latest water treatment technology, promising more water for 150,000 residents in its service area.
It is the first time that the technology, a moving bed bio-film reactor, will be used in Southeast Asia.
Palyja president director Jacques Manem said the technology, which was developed by Degremont Indonesia, would enable the operator to process polluted water from the West Flood Canal (KBB) into raw water.
'The MBBR uses small mediums called 'meteor' during pre-water treatment so we can process water from the West Flood Canal, which is heavily polluted with domestic and industrial waste. It will process pollutants such as ammoniac so it can be further processed into drinking water,' he said during the launch in Karet Tengsin, Central Jakarta.
According to Manem, the canal can provide 550 liters per second of water to cover the needs of as many as 200,000 people.
The water operator invested a total of Rp 22 billion (US$1.66 million) in the technology.
Manem said the additional water material would contribute to efforts to fulfil the target of providing safe water for 95 percent of Jakarta's residents. To meet the target, Jakarta needs 12,000 liters per second of raw water, whereas the capital currently only gets 8,500 liters per second.(++++)
