Bintaro Lama Kampung

This week our class went to the Bintaro Lama Kampung. It was so different from the Water Treatment Plant. Actually the process was similar, just that it was not big but small.

The guide in the kampung first showed us a kind of school or something. The kids sat on the floor and learned about washing their hands and why it is so important.

In front of every house was a water barrel to wash the hands.

Then the guide showed us how to make the water drinkable. The people in the kampung can buy a pack that costs only 1,000Rp. That's not much at all it's only about 0.11$.

The pack has got Alum. As we already know from the water treatment plant, Alum makes the dirt clump together and the go to ground. They people in the kampung stir the water for 5 minutes and then they have a glass with a towel on top and they let the water flow on the towel and then into the glass. from there they first have to wait 20 minutes and then they can drink The guide also told us what to do if you are in the Sahara for instant and you have access to water but not clean water you can take a bottle, put in the water and then let it in the sun. After the water has stayed in the sun for a while, you can drink it. Isn't it cool?

They also showed us two other ways of getting access to clean water. One of them is to use Aqua Tabs ( tablets) and put them into the water that is clean, but not drinkable. they let the tablet dissolve in the water and then again they can drink it.
The second way is to use Air Rah Mad ( I think so I spelled it wrong) to make the water drinkable. Depending on the amount of water you put some of the liquid into the water and the water gets drinkable again.

I just thought the kampung was a very good place to see the live of the people in these kampungs that are located in Jakarta. They use the water very wisely, because they don't have that much of this clean water. Oh I almost forgot. On the end of the trip, when we just were about to leave, we all sang a song about hand washing together with the kampung people. It was a good, but hot trip.