Holey Order

Bogor has bored thousands of water-absorbing holes. They are more effective than absorption wells.

July 17, 2007

AT a glance it looked like a massive golf course-making project. The Bogor municipality had been rapidly boring over 22,000 holes with a diameter of 10-20 centimeters each, last month. All the 68 villages were involved, each obtaining a manual boring tool to meet the June 3 deadline, the date of Bogor’s anniversary. The residents of each village were enthusiastically boring one hole after another.

At the house of Datje S. Ahmad, a resident of

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