Cannot Be A Healthy Life Without Water.
Aswan is the biggest Dam in the world, and Egypt is proud that the Nile with the Aswam dam serve to supply
water for irrigation, generate electricity, household uses, tourism, and
other.
It has surface area of 5,250 km
2.
It reserves 107,000,000 acre ft of water. It has debit 11,000 m
3
minute
-1, and it supplies irrigation for 3,360,000 ha, and produces
electricity of 2,100 MW.
Northern areas of West Java
(Bekasi, Karawang, Subang and Indramayu regencies) has been famous since the Kingdom history of Hindu Java as the rice producing areas. And since the
Jatiluhur has been operating, in these regencies after one or two harvests of
rice, the fields are cultivated for
horticulture/vegetables, that the areas are also supplying many vegetables
as major crops after rice.
The existence
of Jatiluhur dam should change the environment as affected by the pattern of
agricultural practices to the more productive and sustainable.
However the fact is not in line with what should be or is expected.
There are many idle areas uncultivated, and what is worst large areas are
converted to non-agricultural purposes. Jatilihur supplying water for two provinces is very important to serve for healthy life in the regions.
The Nile water is traditionally controlled by Egypt, and 85% is for
irrigation. The problem that is to be solved is how to make better use of the
existing flow of the Nile. And in the long run Egypt must not be dependent
on
the Nile water for up-stream
countries are claiming it. Egypt has potential to develop woods and forest
regions with managing the present Nile water available.
The existence of perennial plants growing in
Cairo city indicates that Egyptian land is arable for woods or perennial
vegetation. The statement of the head of geology laboratory of Cairo University
that Egyptian land was greener than Indonesian in the last time is exactly
rational and the better environmental condition can be regained.
The life quality depend on water. No life without water.
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