by Andi Abdussalam Jakarta - The current drought which had caused water crises and affected 95,891 hectares of rice fields in the country is unlikely to create worst impacts and escalate extensively beyond the normal level. According to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the current drought which had taken place for about two months is still categorically normal and that there is no need to worry about. "As predicted by the BMKG, in this September some parts of Indonesia is undergoing dry season, yet the dry spell is still within the normal level," BMKG Head for information Prabowo said. If the weather this time is felt exceptionally hot and a number of regions in the country are suffering from drought and water crisis it is because of the dry spell, where rain does not fall in a period of several consecutive days. "Much less if compared with that in 2010 when it was a wet dry season or during which rain often fell, the dry season this year is felt too strong, yet in term of annual variations the drought this year is still within the normal limits," Prabowo said. The ongoing drought has been taking place for about two months and has created water crises in many parts of Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island, causing residents to consume dirty water or purchase costly clean water. In East Java for example, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has reported that the drought has spread to 29 districts. "We don't think that residents in the municipality are being affected by the dry spells because they are served by the tap water company PDAM, yet there must be villages or subdistricts in 29 districts which are facing critical water," Head of East Java's BPBD for Prevention and Alertness Affairs, Sudaisman said here on Sunday.


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