Bringing Back the Water: USAID’s Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH) program, Frontlines, Sept/Oct 2015.
Changes in weather patterns are already affecting everyday life in Indonesia. On the islands of Sumatra and Java, places naturally lush with vegetation, rivers and streams are beginning to dry up, exacerbated by heavy deforestation and expanding urban areas.
Construction of an infiltration pond in Semarang district, Central Java IUWASH
When it does rain, it is often more intense now and causes flooding in downstream populated areas. USAID’s Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH) program has promoted a simple way to collect this rain and return it to groundwater aquifers: infiltration ponds.
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