BEKASI, KOMPAS.com - Lulu Tri Rahayu (38), a resident living on the\nfloodplain of the river in Kampung Cabang Pintu Air, Bekasi, said people\nare forced to use murky canal water because they have no access to clean\nwater. \u2018There\u2019s no clean water here. So we use canal water to wash\ndishes, clothes, bathe, and to urinate. If we drink, we buy bottled\nwater,\u2019 Lulu told Kompas.com at the location on Friday, 22 May 2026.<\/p>\n
Earlier, a video posted by a foreign environmental cleanliness\nactivist with the Instagram account @sambencheghib<\/span> went viral on social\nmedia. The footage shows volunteers and sanitation workers cleaning up\nlitter along the canal flow in Kampung Cabang Pintu Air, Desa\nKarangasih, Kecamatan Cikarang Utara, Kabupaten Bekasi.<\/p>\n The post elicited various comments from netizens highlighting the\nenvironmental conditions and the fact that residents still use canal\nwater for daily needs. The house where she lives sits on land owned by\nPerum Jasa Tirta (PJT) or irrigation authorities. According to her, some\nresidents no longer have water pumps. \u2018Residents here have stopped\nhaving water pumps. A while ago, the buildings here were going to be\nevicted. So the pumps were cut,\u2019 she said. \u2018Here people usually wash\nfrom morning to afternoon,\u2019 she added. Although the water is often murky\nand full of trash, Lulu says she has grown accustomed to using canal\nwater for household needs. \u2018People here are used to it. Although\nsometimes the water looks like sewage, very black. This is because they\njust cleaned it yesterday, so it looks clean. Usually there are a lot of\nwater hyacinths.\u2019<\/p>",
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