- Antara/ Maril Gafur
VIVAnews - World Water Day was celebrated yesterday, March 22, with an aim to create ideas and visions for raising awareness about the importance of clean water for healthy world. Various projects on water supply are set up across the globe. Thousands of homes in Central Java, Indonesia, are also targets of the improvement in water pipelining and sanitation.
The newly installed channels have been assembled by Australia as part of its MDGs in which one of the objectives is to provide access to clean water and basic sanitation to half of Indonesian by 2015.
AusAID Director of Infrastructure, Ben Power, expected the water channels and sanitation can refine people's quality of life.
"Around 65 thousands of people in Central Java have now gained access to water of better quality with a cheaper price. Four thousand others in Surakarta are now linked to wastewater treatment system," said Power.
The aid will reach 420 thousand people in almost 80 thousand homes of the poor in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi.
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