Dig Wells, Stop Floods

EACH time a flood occurs, the term absorption well becomes an instant prima donna. However, as soon as the earth is dry again, life is back to business as usual, sending that term to the bottom of the well, drowned.

Although the Jakarta provincial government has appealed for the creation of absorption wells, the call appears to be a regulation that is heeded anything but strictly. A case in point is Budi Wahyudi, a resident of Cempaka Putih, who o

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