Thursday, September 23, 2004

Bandung & Jakarta bakal krisis air. (Bandung & Jakarta Water Crisis)

Source: Bisnis Indonesia

Menteri Lingkungan Hidup Nabiel Makarim mengatakan dalam waktu lima tahun ke depan wilayah Bandung dan Jakarta akan mengalami krisis air akibat mernurunnya debit air sungai di wilayah Cekungan Bandung, terutama di DAS Citarum. Oleh karena itu, pihaknya dan Pemprov Jabar Tengah merencanakan untuk merelokasi semua industri yang berada di sepanjang DAS Citarum ke dalam kawasan industri yang rencananya berlokasi di Cipeundeuy. Gubernur Jabar Danny Setiawan mengungkapkan saat ini pencemaran air sungai di Jabar sudah mencapai kondisi yang sangat memprihatinkan.

English Translation

Environment Minister Nabiel Makarim said in time five years in front of the Bandung territory and Jakarta will experience the water crisis resulting from mernurun him the river water debit in the Bandung Basin territory, especially in the Citarum BANG. Therefore, his team and Pemprov West Java was planning to merelokasi all the industries that was all along the Citarum BANG into the industrial region that his plan was located in Cipeundeuy. West Java Governor Danny Setiawan said at this time pollution of the river water in West Java has achieved the condition that very worrying.