JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president said water from the Citarum River should be made drinkable within seven years under a new clean-up project for the Java river, often ranked among the world’s most polluted.
Running 300km from a spring in West Java to the sea near capital city Jakarta, the Citarum feeds three hydro power stations and is used for 400,000ha of rice field.
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