Beating the Floods
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Bojonegoro won a national award for flood management. Local officials have built hundreds of water catchments, but that was only the beginning.
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Villagers from Bendo in Bojonegoro regency, East Java, no longer fear running out of clean water in the dry season. Since 2010, Bendo has had a six-hectare water catchmentan area where water is collected by the natural landscapecalled Embung Grobogan. The catchment guarantees them enough water supply to irrigate 50 hectares of rice paddies, located 10 kilometers from the center of Bojonegoro. "There is never a shortage," said resident Nur Cholis, 3
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