Mott MacDonald helps improve water supply in Indonesia

Mott MacDonald is providing technical assistance for a project that will address water shortages in Indonesia’s third largest city, Bandung, and its surrounding areas. Watershed degradation, rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, as well as slow development of surface water sources, have created overdependence on groundwater as a primary source of water. As a result, the rate of water extraction from local aquifers significantly exceeds recharge rates, with water tables declining at more than 1 metre a year in some areas. This has led to acute water stress and depletion of aquifers in