1. In your own words, explain what the title of this article means.
It means that the government failed from controlling, as in stopping and organizing from the mess that people are making, using way too much groundwater (aquifer).



2. According to the article, who is taking a lot of water out of the aquifer?
People who lives, works, and goes to High-rise buildings, skyscrapers. (apartment, office buildings, blocks, hotels etc…)



3. If you take a lot of water from the aquifer, what three things happen?
The water table is getting lower and lower each time, the sea water is keep intruding into the aquifers


4. What is the punishment for taking more water than your permit allows?
The punishment for taking more water than your permit is to pay 5 million rupiah or spend six months in jail.





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5. Do you think this punishment will stop people taking too much water from aquifer? Why?
I don’t think that it is reasonable. I think that because high-rise building people are rich, and 5 million rupiah doesn’t seem like massive amount of money. Owners of high-rise building would easily pay for it.


6. Jakarta’s aquifers are being contaminated by sea water. What else is contaminating Jakarta’s groundwater?
Septic tanks. Septic tanks are intruding groundwater without permission. And it is contaminating the wells and aquifers. It is a very bad situation, not being able to drink for a long time because the septic tanks are close to wells.

7.What evidence is there for the additional contamination in number 6?
The evidence is that there are complaints from Jakarta citizens, that the water are getting contaminated because of high-rise buildings, septic tanks getting mized by aquifers and wells that pollutes clean water.

Social Studies Homework

Septic Tank- Septic tank is the tank that holds the dirty toilet stuffs, and where all the human waste from the toilet goes.
(Picture of Septic) (DICTIONARY WORD-
a tank in which solid organic sewage is decomposed and purified by anaerobic bacteria. A sewage-disposal tank in which a continuous flow of waste material is decomposed by anaerobic bacteria.)

Septic tanks and wells are country things. City people use pipes, to get clean water and to send human waste to get treated by pipes too.
To learn more about septic tank, visit, http://www.aceseptictankservice.com/howdoesasepticsystemwork.nxge.com/howdoesasepticsystemwork.nxg it tells you all about Septic tanks!

Groundwater - A scientific word for groundwater is aquifer. Groundwater is the water that's beneath the ground, the water we drink. (underground) (Beneathe mud, etc) (DICTIONARY WORD-The water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down. The source of water in springs and wells.)http://www.epa.state.oh.us/ddagw/SWEET/sweet_simulators.htmlWEET/sweet_simulators.html this is a site about groundwater. How to expiriment. http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/gwrp/saltwater/gwflow.html this site is about how groundwater flows


















Reservoir - Reservoir is a water bank. A place something that looks like a lake that holds water.
(Picture of Reservoir) Jati Lahur reservoir is the biggest reservoir in Jakarta. (DICTIONARY WORD-a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc.)
















Vendor- Vendors are people who sell things (Water, food...etc)
(Pic of Water Vendor) (DICTIONARY WORD-someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money.)




















Abysmal- Abysmal means something that's terrible (e.x. Terrible water)
(Not much water left,,) (DICTIONARY WORD-extremely or hopelessly bad or severe)











www.btny.purdue.edu/Pubs/PPP/PPP35.html
This site is ALL ABOUT WATER. The water cycle, the process, water quality and more.

Unprocessed Water - Unprocessed water is dirty water that are not cleaned yet. Processed water is the opposite of unprocessed water, as in cleaned water.

(THIS PICTURE IS A PICTURE OF A UNPROCESSED WATER.)

Myth & Truth of THE WATER

Myth:
Once you use water, it’s gone.
Truth:
I don’t think the water would be gone once you use it. When you use it, it goes through pipes to the factory, get cleaned, and then you can reuse it again.
Myth:
There are more pollutants in drinking water today than before.
Truth:
I think that part of it is true, but also false.The truth is that we do have more pollutants in drinking water today than a long time ago, but we also reuse more water and recycle more to clean drinking water than before. So I guess we make more pollutant water, but also clean it.
Myth:
Bottled water is safer than tap water.
Truth:
I guess some bottled water is safer than tap water. Because the bottled water gets checked in factory, even though that the tap waters get checked often, the pipes could be filled with bacteria growing inside.But some bottled water aren’t safe also, the workers in factories might not have checked the property properly, or there were space for bacteria to be growing in there