For you to do 1. Use the words below to complete the text in the section “Recent issues with water”: 2. Look at the climate graph for Jakarta and complete the worksheet at worldvision.com.au/schoolresources 3. When would Jakarta be most vulnerable to fooding? Using the climate graph, list two dry season months, and two wet season months. Dry season: (i) ________________________________ (ii) ________________________________ Wet season: (i) ________________________________ (ii) ________________________________ M A L A Y S I A I N N E S I A Equator In Jakarta, poor communities are particularly vulnerable to fooding. Many live in poor shelters on the banks of polluted canals. access canals contamination demand disasters diseases educate fooding groundwater rural season water Jakarta, Indonesia: Climate Graph 6 12’ S, 106 48’ E 7m above sea level. Recent issues with water 400 35 Like many countries, Indonesia faces numerous water are common. Poor sanitation can also pollute the rivers and challenges. According to the United Nations, one in fve cause __________________________ of ground and surface 350 30 Indonesians lack __________________________ to safe water sources. This further spreads disease. 300 25 drinking water. Access to safe drinking water is worse Jakarta is on a food plain and several large rivers fow through Temperature (C) Rainfall (mm) 250 200 20 15 150 for the urban poor and people living in more remote the city, making it prone to __________________________. __________________________ areas. Due to poverty, many people live in poorly built houses, Apart from access to safe, clean water, other parts of located on the river banks. This increases the potential for 10 Indonesia face the risk of water shortages. There simply isn’t foods to become __________________________. 100 enough water to meet the __________________________, 5 Every year, large parts of Jakarta are fooded during the rainy 50 so people have to cut back on their water use, and may need __________________________, which starts in November to pay more for the water they can buy. 0 0 January February March April May June July August September October November December and ends in April. Floods were especially severe in 2002, 2007 Rainfall Temperature Also, the increasing demand for water in urban areas has and 2013. In 2007, 60 percent of Jakarta was inundated with meant households and industries have sunk wells to gain access __________________________ up to seven metres deep, to __________________________. An unexpected side-effect causing over 70 deaths and displacing 340,000 inhabitants. has been land subsidence in large cities, such as Jakarta. Flooding also leads to diarrhoea, dengue fever and cholera. Source of data used: WorldClimate (www.worldclimate.com) Many people still lack access to basic sanitation and so The World Bank has initiated a food mitigation project __________________________ such as diarrhoea and typhoid (2012-2017) to dredge and rehabilitate the food-ways and ______________________ 100°E 110°E 120°E 130°E 140°E °N Hanoi 20°N of the city. The World MYANMAR LAOS CHINA KEY Country name LAOS Bank will provide a loan Vientiane Country border Country capital Rangoon Megacity with population over 8 million people of $189 million to the THAILAND Other city/town VIETNAM Manila Bangkok provincial government of CAMBODIA Jakarta to complete this Andaman Islands Phnom Penh PHILIPPINES FEDERATED STATES INDIA 10°N OF MICRONESIA management strategy. Andaman Sea Nicobar Islands South China PALAU Melekeok INDIA Sea At the same time, non- Banda Aceh PACIFIC BRUNEI Bandar Seri Begawan government organisations OCEAN Celebes Sea Kuala Lumpur like World Vision work SINGAPORE Borneo Singapore 0° with communities to Molucca Kalimantan West Papua Jayapura Sea Sumatra Sulawesi ______________________ D O Papua PAPUA NEW GUINEA people about keeping INDIAN Java Sea their waterways clear of Banda Sea OCEAN Jakarta Flores Sea Surabaya Java Flores Dun Tana Bali rubbish and waste. Maumere Dili Savu Sea EAST TIMOR Arafura Sea Denpasar 10°S °S Waingapu Christmas Island Sumba Timor AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA Cocos Islands N Timor Sea Darwin Kilometres 0 150 300 Scale 1:14 000 000 450 AUSTRALIA 100°E 110°E 120°E 130°E 140°E 18 | Get Connected – Water in the world Get Connected – Water in the world | 19