Ref: Air adalah kebutuhan utama bagi manusia, tumbuh-tumbuhan maupun binatang. Tidak berkekurangan sungai dan dari langit pun datang hujan, air berlimpah-limpah menyebabkan banjir dan tanah lonsor. Air bersih bagi kebutuhan rakyat tidak dapat dijamin oleh negara menjadi harga mati NKRI.
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/health/indonesias-clean-drinking-water-crisis-worst-in-southeast-asia-expert/528758 Indonesia's Clean Drinking Water Crisis Worst in Southeast Asia: Expert July 05, 2012 Water queue. A woman transports drinking water in the village of Bajo Indah in Southeast Sulawesi, on Saturday. Every day people in the town line up to retrieve clean water to meet their daily needs. (Antara Photo/Zabur Karuru) Pekanbaru. Indonesia has the worst drinking water in Southeast Asia, a freshwater researcher at the Indonesian Research Institute (LIPI) said on Wednesday. “Only 30 percent [of city residents] have access to clean water,” Ignasius DA Sutapa, a fresh water researcher at LIPI said in Bengkalis, Riau. “[That number] drops to only ten percent in villages.” Indonesia needs to ensure that 50 percent of the population has access to clean drinking water if the nation hopes to meet the targets set by the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Development Goals. Participating countries have committed to improving their overall health, environment and quality of life — focusing on eight targets addressing issues like poverty, malaria, HIV and hunger. Reaching Indonesia’s clean water target it too large a goal for the state-owned water company PDAM to meet alone, Ignasius said. The government should focus on building more peat water processing plants in peatland-heavy areas like Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua, he said. “In those peatland areas, the water is not safe enough to be consumed,” Ignasius said. A peat water filtration program running in Tanjung Leban village, in Bengkalis, Riau has successfully provided local residents with clean drinking water, he said. The government should fund the development of additional processing plants, Ignasius added. Antara [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
