Water: Earning its Keep

Some new buildings have a sewage-processing system whose benefits begin to be felt. The Jakarta government is drawing up a regulation requiring its construction.

August 11, 2010

THE odor of ammonia exudes a pungent smell as soon as the door is opened. One step inside, two large red ball-shaped tubes are visible in the middle of the hall. Pipes of all sizes entwine one another, channeling the water. “Those are the tubes where the liquid waste undergoes a final process. Afterward the sewage is kept in a storage tank,” said Wahid, operator of the sewage-processing installation.

Wahid and his co-worker, Ade Suhairi, exp

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