Deforestation Blamed for Worsening Water Supply in Sumatra

Jakarta. Sumatra’s watersheds — ridges of land that separate waters flowing to different rivers and keep those waters pristine — have lost the largest amount of forest cover in the world over the course of 15 years, drastically reducing the quality of its water supply, World Research Institute's Global Forest Watch Water revealed on Tuesday (30/08).

More than 22 percent of Sumatra's forest cover, or 8 million hectares — an area almost as large as the entire province of North Sumatra — was destroyed from 2000 to 2014.

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