'Stop ground water exploitation'

'Stop ground water exploitation'

BOGOR: A local councillor has called on the Bogor municipal
administration to stop making money by allowing the exploiting of
groundwater by poorly planned developments.

Rizal Barnadi of the council's Commission D for development
warned that if uncontrolled development continued, Bogor could
become like Jakarta, which regularly experienced water shortages
in certain areas.

Dewi Kurnia from the Bogor information office denied that the
Bogor administration was unaware of the importance of sustainable
development. She said Monday that the municipality's residential
settlement agency last year built many water retention
facilities.

She also said that all housing developers were obliged to
build water retention facilities, and that the authorities had
banned the construction of buildings along riverbanks. --Antara