Jakarta has to deal with two contrary extremes related to water management. Both extreme shortages of drinking water and floods are alternated, resulting in a chronic water crisis. Combined with climate change, rapid urbanization and a sinking city this crisis is predicted to become even more intense in the future. Jakarta houses the biggest part of the population of Indonesia and water supply comes mostly from other provinces. In this podcast these wide ranging water problems will be analyzed and discussed.
What is Integrated Water Management?
The podcast Integrated Water Management of the University of Twente is a production within the Master study of Water Engineering and Management. For more information see here https://www.utwente.nl/en/et/cem/research/wem/