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Article: JAKARTA TO FACE DRINKING WATER SHORTAGE BY 2010: PAM JAYA.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- July 3, 2006
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JAKARTA, July 3 Asia Pulse - Jakarta is expected to face a shortage of drinking water by 2010 unless new water installations are built, a spokesman said.
"To date the regional drinking water company (PAM Jaya) only has six water installations consisting of one in Pejompongan, one in Pulogadung and two in Buaran. The company has a total production of 18,160 liters per second to serve an estimated 700 thousand subscribers or equivalent to four million people," the company's spokesman Ifie S. Laili said on Monday.
At present PAM Jaya served nearly 60 per cent of the capital's population of 10 million, while the rest consumed ground water, he said.
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