Dadi Abdurrahman
Ekin Village is one of the villages with South Latnen District, Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. Geographically there is about 5 km to the east with the country of Timor Leste. The village with an altitude of above 800 meters above sea level to support the day, they rely on animal husbandry. The agriculture is only seasonal because the river and water are often drying.
Ekin Village is included in 3T (lagging, foremost, and outermost). The urgency for the residents of Ekin Village is the existence of clean water. To support their daily needs, they rely on rivers if they are there. However, because it often dries, inevitably it must be filled with buying clean water of seven hundred thousand rupiah per truck. This one truck water can last about one week for one house.
For this reason, the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) through the 3T Regional Community Service Program in Eastern Indonesia, the cooperation between ITB and the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration of the Republic of Indonesia (Kemendesa PDTT) in 2023 launched a clean water program. One of the areas that got this program was Ekin Village, East Nusa Tenggara. This clean water selection was obtained from the application that was made by ITB in 2022. The application can bridge the communication of village heads throughout Indonesia with ITB experts related to the problems faced in the relevant villages.
To get a clean water drilling point, exploration is first. Exploration begins with geological mapping, geomorphological analysis, river depravation, and geophysical measurements. From these stages, a drilling point has a prospect to be drilled, with an estimated depth of around 100 m. But in the stage of implementing clean water drilling cannot be carried out because the drill team cannot access the area. That is because access to locations other than the high extreme height is also in a bad damaged road. Not a few roads split produce a gap with a width of about 1 meter.
Seeing these obstacles the team conducts other alternatives to get clean water, namely by irrigation (pipeline) clean water. This piping is carried out to disburse water at a more shallow depth to a higher one with an elevation difference of about 150 meters. Clean Water Center There are about 500 meters from residential areas.
Clean Water Distribution for Ekin Village
This project is very useful because it holds clean water for villages that rely on rainwater.