Water purifiers for Palangka Raya

PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: Farmers being resettled to the peat land project will not have to worry about drinking water.

The government is building about 3,000 water purifiers on the one-million-hectare site to ensure that the transmigrants will not have water problems, Antara reported.

Hasudungan Siagian, assistant to the provincial office of Water Enterprise, said the 3,000 water purifiers were enough to serve 6,000 farm families.

The central government has allocated over Rp 400 million (US$170,000) to install the purifiers.

He said his office decided not to build a pipe network for water distribution because it would be too expensive for farmers to operate and maintain. (pan)