Waste water treatment seminar

Waste water treatment seminar

JAKARTA (JP): Experts from the Ministry of Public Works and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) underlined here yesterday the importance of ground and surface water quality and the need to collect correct data.

In a two-day seminar on human waste and domestic waste water disposal in Bekasi, they suggested that monitoring is also needed to provided sanitation facilities.

The seminar, which ended yesterday and was sponsored by the directorate general of human settlements of the Ministry of Public Works and JICA, presented a number of speakers, including JICA expert Mitsumi Kaneko and Darmawan Saleh of the Ministry.

The main topic of seminar, which was attended by 60 participants from various government institutions and state-owned companies, discussed the development of technology and the management of waste water disposal based on Indonesian and Japanese research. (hhr)