Cianjur, West Java – The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) is concentrating on distributing clean water and structure water sanitation facilities in areas that have lost their water sources following the Cianjur earthquake.
Public relations officer of PMI’s Cianjur Disaster Emergency situation Response Ikbal Selamet said that previously, residents in a number of towns in Cugenang sub-district, such as Cibulakan, Benjod, Sarampad, Mangunkerrta, and Nyalindung, are doing not have access to clean water due to the appearance of surface cracks caused by the earthquake.
” Therefore, PMI is focusing the circulation of tidy water beginning with the evacuation posts to the affected towns and public facilities in a variety of locations,” Selamet informed in Cianjur, West Java, on Monday.
Every day, PMI is dispatching 16 water trucks with a capacity of 5 thousand liters per unit to supply water to residents three times a day. Since the 22 nd day following the earthquake, the PMI has provided more than two million liters of clean water, he notified.
PMI has actually likewise offered 24- hour health services, which were begun two days after the earthquake and will be continued for the next 6 months at Camp Joglo evacuation post on Pangeran Hidayattulah street. Citizens who need health services can check out the evacuation post, Selamet said.
The loss of tidy water sources from below or in the air (such as wells) was validated by the locals of a number of towns in Cugenang, Pacet, and Cianjur sub-districts. After the earthquake struck, the citizens’ water sources vanished with the emergence of fractures in the ground.
A local of Kawunggading village, Cugenang sub-district, Muklis, stated that after the earthquake, he saw a crack in the ground about 20 centimeters large running from the rice field to the fish pond and the citizens’ real estate.
” The ground cracks drew the water in the ponds and rice fields. All the fish in the ponds seemed to be drawn into the ground and vanished also,” he notified.
Residents of Nagrak town, Cianjur sub-district, and 3 towns in Pacet sub-district have actually also verified the loss of sources of tidy water from below and above the ground. Fractures on the ground that emerged after the earthquake dried up their water sources.
Far, the locals have been entirely relying on water supply from the PMI, authorities, national defence forces, and the Public Functions and Public Housing Ministry (PUPR).
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