Eric
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 | | Subject: I thought New Orleans was bad--Jakarta has sunk 13 feet in last 30 years Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:25 pm | |
| Jakarta Sinking fast-LINK (It's a lengthy article.) Home to 28 Million people, 40% of Jakarta is now below sea level.  These guys constantly bring stones to raise their seawall.  - Quote :
- “Jakarta is a bowl, and the bowl is sinking,” said Fook Chuan Eng, senior water and sanitation specialist with the World Bank, who oversees a $189 million flood mitigation project for the city.
The channels of the Ciliwung and other rivers are sinking. The entire sprawl of Jakarta’s north coast - fishing ports, boatyards, markets, warehouses, fish farms, crowded slums and exclusive gated communities - it’s all sinking. Even the 40-year-old seawall that is supposed to keep the Java Sea from inundating the Indonesian capital is sinking. | |
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