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| Activities by NGOs and CBOs |
Indonesia |
| Case 22: Construction of irrigation in East Java |
| Type
of Activity |
Water system technology |
| Organization |
Supeno |
| Area |
Kediri, East Java |
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Summary
Because of his strong will and hard work, he managed to ask the people to work together to make still water flows so that it can be utilized for watering and cultivating arid land to make it productive. The first thing he did was to set up bamboo pipes as long as 1.2 kilometers to flow the water, to dig a tunnel with the depth of 3.5 – 18 meters until finally managed to build a dam to increase the water surface level with the diameter of 17.5 meters with the width of foundation of 4 meters and height of 3.5 meters while the thickness of the top wall is 1 meter. On top of that he also built reservoir tanks as many as 11 tanks that make the inhabitants of Bulakdawung and the surrounding live healthily and in prosperity.
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