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PRESIDENT INAUGURATES 1ST PHASE OF BALI SEWERAGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Denpasar, Bali, June 15 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday inaugurated the first phase of the Denpasar Sewerage Development Project (DSDP), a waste water treatment network system designed to avoid environmental pollution.
"This year is international sanitation year,... Let us make our environment clean, beautiful and neat," the president said.
As one of the country's main tourist destinations, Bali should always keep not only its beauty and natural characteristics but also its environmental cleanliness and sanitation, he said.
DSDP is one of the efforts to keep water cleanliness by disposing of household waste to the distribution network for further processing. As such, the household waste will not pollute the environment and will not be disposed of to rivers and the sea.
On the occasion, the president also touched on the government's policies which put emphasis not merely on high economic growth but also on even distribution of development gains. The policies favored the poor because they were aimed at reducing unemployment rate.
"DSDP is a preventive effort to improve environmental santitation," Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto said.
The minister said the first phase of DSDP which kicked off in December 1994 cost an estimated Rp600 billion. The project included construction of 129-km long pipeline network to carry off waste water to the treatment unit.
He said the DSDP was built as a manifestation of the government's care about the high pollution rate at the Benoa Bay.
The first phase of DSDP built in cooperation with the Japanese government would process waste produced by at least 250,000 people, he said.
The second phase of DSDP would kick off this year and be completed in 2014, he said.
"This year is international sanitation year,... Let us make our environment clean, beautiful and neat," the president said.
As one of the country's main tourist destinations, Bali should always keep not only its beauty and natural characteristics but also its environmental cleanliness and sanitation, he said.
DSDP is one of the efforts to keep water cleanliness by disposing of household waste to the distribution network for further processing. As such, the household waste will not pollute the environment and will not be disposed of to rivers and the sea.
On the occasion, the president also touched on the government's policies which put emphasis not merely on high economic growth but also on even distribution of development gains. The policies favored the poor because they were aimed at reducing unemployment rate.
"DSDP is a preventive effort to improve environmental santitation," Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto said.
The minister said the first phase of DSDP which kicked off in December 1994 cost an estimated Rp600 billion. The project included construction of 129-km long pipeline network to carry off waste water to the treatment unit.
He said the DSDP was built as a manifestation of the government's care about the high pollution rate at the Benoa Bay.
The first phase of DSDP built in cooperation with the Japanese government would process waste produced by at least 250,000 people, he said.
The second phase of DSDP would kick off this year and be completed in 2014, he said.
