Greater Jakarta: Daan Mogot Apartments Lack Clean Water
June 03, 2015
The quality of tap water in low-cost apartments in Daan Mogot, West
Jakarta, is poor. Besides being visibly dirty, the water also causes skin
rashes.
Sukarman, a community unit head who lives in one of the blocks, which were
built in 2014, said on Friday that he was forced to buy clean water from his
neighbor for daily activities like bathing.
“We cannot use the water, which looks like tea, for washing our bodies. We can
get skin rashes and the body does not feel fresh,” he said, as quoted by kompas.com.
Sukarman said that although he could access clean water easily, he hoped that
the apartment complex’s tap water could become clean, so he did not have to
carry water in jerricans to his unit on the fifth floor.
Fifty-year-old Tedyi, the water vendor, said he and his neighbors previously
bought bottled water for daily activities but the cost was too high.
“I then decided to buy water from Tangerang’s [city-owned water operator] PAM
and sell it to the tenants once a week with a truck,” he said.
Source: thejakartapost.com
