Komura Kenteng is a two-hour drive from Semarang, the capital city of Central Java, Indonesia. On the evening of the 10th, when the Indonesian Red Cross water truck loaded with 6,000 liters of water for daily use arrived, residents with large and small plastic containers rushed one after another.
"I'm saved. I've been waiting for four months." Housewife Murti (52) smiled. There has been no rain since the dry season in May, and there is no water for nine families to use in the bath and kitchen. Every two weeks, private water is purchased from private companies for 600,000 rupiah (about 4600 yen), but the average monthly income of Kenteng's household is 1.5 million rupiah (about 11,000 yen), and the household is under pressure I keep doing it.
On this day, 90 households had less than 30 minutes of domestic water.
Kenteng is a rural area that produces rice, soybeans, corn, etc., but farming is not possible due to drought. Cracked and devastated fields are spreading.
Even in the suburbs of Semarang, water shortages are serious, as the amount of water in the water source has dropped to less than half of last year and the river has dried up.
"I want you to continue water supply" "When will you come this time?" This message also arrives every day from other villages on the mobile phone of the Red Cross local support chief Gusit Christiawan (32).
This year, we will suffer from drought ...
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