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CLEAN WATER MANAGEMENT: WHAT DOES THE GOVERNMENT NEED TO DO TO DISTRIBUTE CLEAN WATER IN REMOTE AND LITTORAL AREAS

            Water takes a very big role in our life. It is the most abundant substance on the surface of Earth. Water has always been an important life-sustaining drink to humans and is essential to the survival of most other organisms. Excluding fat, water composes approximately 70% of human by body mass.
            In Indonesia, due to different types of terrain and geographic condition, people who are living in remote areas and littoral areas are facing the problem of their resources of clean water. Take example from the remote areas, they need to walk for miles just to get clean water, and this activity is time and energy consuming. As for the people in littoral areas, they face another problem. Their water resources are contaminated with saline, which is not the best choice for drink and fulfilling the needs of washing and bathing.
            Water is seen as a human right. That means water is not for sell. The Government is obliged to distribute it everywhere in the nation for free. While the cost of distribution can be taken from public taxes. However, in Indonesia water flows into our houses and we have to pay for it, and this is contrary to the view of water as a human right.
             To distribute clean water in remote and littoral areas seems to be impossible, since, talking in general, 71% of Earth’s surface is water. The water’s volume on earth is ±1.4 billion km3 but only 3% of it is fresh water, the rest 97% is saline. Remember that not all of them are in our nation. So, what needs to be done by the Government to solve this problem?
            In conventional, people tend to fetch clean water from rivers and lakes. But this will not last so long due to population explosion and lack of awareness. This lack of awareness too is a main factor of the significant decrease of clean water resources. This is reflected by our society’s behavior to throw their garbage in the river.
            There are a few ways and solutions that can be done to solve this problem, such as rain harvesting which is using rainwater by cupping and storing it in a storage, like jars, pots, and so on, so that the rainwater may be used for gardening, as water for the livestock, and water for irrigation rather than let it run off.  
            Another way to solve this problem is by expanding and extending the catchment areas in the nation. Because boreholes in urban areas are significantly increasing, and if the government does not act on this matter, there may be imbalance on water from the catchment areas and the water from the boreholes.
            To conclude, water’s role in our life is very big. It is a right for people to have water freely, and that the Government should take action to distribute it with no cost to every place. But doing it will not be so easy due to several reasons: different types of terrain and geographical condition etc. and if the Government can’t distribute it to remote and littoral areas, there are still ways they can bring prosperity to people living in remote and littoral areas: using nowadays’ technology of rain harvesting or extend the catchment areas in the nation.


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  1. Stefyana Hernawati8 May 2016 at 22:53

    Ini teh tugas bahasa inggris?

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    1. Dwiki Halla12 May 2016 at 14:48

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