Residents Must Be Willing to Buy Water and Get Red Water for Consumption, Due to Dry Hit Bengkalis Island

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BENGKALIS - Residents of Bengkalis Regency community, especially on Bengkalis island, have had difficulty getting clean water after being hit by drought for two months.

The difficulty of clean water, makes people have to take red water from peat soil for consumption, such as used for bathing, washing clothes, drinking and for cooking.

"Indeed yesterday it rained but it was not so heavy. And now the rain water has run out, like it or not we take red water from peat soil for consumption and for bathing," Abdullah resident Bengkalis said, Tuesday, August 20, 2019.

Siti Maryam, a housewife from Damon Bengkalis Sub-district, also shared the same thing. During this dry season, he does consume gallon water bought from daily shops.

"During this dry season, we cook using gallons of water. Yes, like it or not, we have to buy water once a week. For bathing, there is still a little water. And what we are confused about when we wash our clothes, so water must be very economical to use at home, I hope it will rain quickly, amen, "said Siti to this media.

Meanwhile, also expressed Lina residents Ahmad Yani Bengkalis Street. Lina said that for every day she had to hire people to get water for her use.

"Indeed, in our house there is a wellbore. But our wellbore is also dry, it cannot be sucked up anymore, like it or not we tell people to take water for us. And if for cooking we only use gallon water, so the name is forced, indeed now Bengkalis is not there. And it only rained briefly yesterday, 'he concluded. ***