Questions

1. To me this article says that our ground water is not doing so well. it is saying that the salt water is going in the ground and contamonating it.

2.According to the article, who is taking a lot of water out of the aquifer?
the office buildings, schools and high rise apartements use alot of water from the aquifer because theyhave to provide water to many people. In sudirman there are so many buildings that it may lead to a crack on the road.

3.If you take a lot of water from the aquifer, what three things happen?
we've been taking alot of the water so now there are holes in the ground. The sea water has also found an easier way to enter the ground water so now the ground water isn't very fresh and is now salty. Now that some of the water is salty it is not very good and is not clean enough to use everyday uses and people that use ground water are very unfortunate if the salt water comes in.

4.What is the punishment for taking more water than your permit allows?
If the offices or appartments take more water than the permit than they have to pay up to 5 million rupiah or spend 6 months in jail. This is not a very good thing because the people there can pay the 5 million very easily and would not go to jail unless they were bankrupt and that is very rare.

5.Do you think this punishment will stop people taking too much water from the aquifer? Why?
yes and no, because some of the companies would probably notice that the ground water is slowly decreasing and start using a different source. some of the companies will just go "oh well" and go on with there life.

6.Jakarta’s aquifers are being contaminated by sea water. What else is contaminating Jakarta’s groundwater?
Human waste is also contamonating the aquifer because the septic tanks leak and contamonait the water. It is not a good idea of having a well close by a septic tank is not a very good idea because the septic tanks will contaminate the water in the well.

7.What evidence is there for the additional contamination in number 6?

Sometimes when people have wells and their neighbor has a septic tank close by that your water will be contaminated by human waste.

SEPTIC TANK- Is a tank where the human waste is stored and is decomposed and purified with anaerobic bacteria.

unprossed Water- Unprocessed water is not very clean because it hasn't gont through the process of purifing the water.

water pressure- water pressure is like the strenth of the water pushing.an example of water pressure is when you go to the deep end of a swimming pool you can sometimes feel the pressure in your ears ane head.

Ground water- is located beneath the ground and is stored the aquifier.

Reservior- Its a natural man made place were water is stored.

WATER MYTHS

We have less water today than we did 100 years ago.
Actually no because the water we have today is mostly the same water as the dinosaurs had like a billion years ago. The only difference in the water is that there are more people in the world and the water is not the same as it used to be because now days there is only a small precentage of clean water in the world. Now we need people to help out by finding new ways to conserve water and finding better ways to protect it.


Once you use water, it’s gone.
that is also incorrect after you use water you can sweat or urinate. all of that water is then evaporate into the clouds and it rains. Our water today is sooo poluted its hard to get clean water and thats why we need water filter systems to keep our water safe and use-able.

There are more pollutants in drinking water today than before.
Well not really around 25 years ago we didn't have all the high tecnology that we have today. All of our water is safe and we know that because our tecnnology can help find that out, 25 years ago we didn't know if our water was clean enough to drink because the tecnology that we have today. Eventhough we know our water is clean we are still thinking of ways to make the water cleaner.