A drop of water for Titisan

   Not much water, though. The number of peoples in Titisan Village who wish to work in agriculture. Located in Sukalarang District, Sukabumi Regency, which is Indonesia's most fertile province West Java. A prosperous human life with plenty of natural richness in many different disciplines is substantially supported by the environmental conditions. Being the boundary between Cianjur Regency and Sukabumi Regency, Titisan Village's location is highly favorable and located strategic. Officially recognized as village borders back from long time ago, Titisan Village's was separated into five areas. 

    A major road divides the two areas at the lower from the three areas in the higher place. The upper area is being called as it is because the place’s elevation and closer to the Mount Gede Pangrango Peoples at the upper area rely the economy in agriculture, farming, and shoes industry. I can’t write what brands but nowadays they are the biggest two. Meanwhile, the lower area focuses their economies on agriculture and home industries. We didn’t find many problems in the agricultural sector because the farmers in Titisan Village are already familiar with modern agriculture. 

   One of the problems that being faced by farmers is lack of funds and increasingly limited land due to Land Use Rights (for a long time, they plants horticultural crops in government’s land, but they are allowed to do agricultural thing until the government commands to take it for another reason), as well as many field was being sold to entrepreneurs. The villager's interest in agriculture has significantly decreased compared to previous years. Especially for the youngster, who tends to be unfamiliar with agriculture despite living in an agrarian environment. 

     For people at the upper area of Titisan Village, water is not an issue that needs to be solved. It’s make sense because this village’s part is located in higher area. However, for the lower area, water’s availability is very difficult to find at the moment, especially considering that agriculture is the main role of the villager's economy. The main characteristic of water, flow from higher places to lower places. What's matter? The higher area still have enough water reserves for the future, although not in large quantities. 

     On the other side, opposite thing is happening in the lower area, which is currently running out of water even for daily needs, let alone considering about irrigation for agricultural land. Passion and motivation to agricultural are increasingly goes down. The rice fields can’t be irrigated sufficiently, causing the rice to grow poorly and the horticultural plants can’t be harvested as good as it used to be. 

   Few years ago, people of lower area only needed to dig seven meters and that was enough to get clean water. But now, they need to dig twice depth from before and the amount of water obtained is not much, now. The upper, which is residential area and factory, has "sucked" up a lot of water, leaving only residual water for the lower area. For factory, the wells are dug as deep as two hundred meters or even more. What an irony. 

    The Titisan Village’s authorities are already aware of this issue and have met with the factory representatives to find solution to the water shortage problem. What things should be considered is sustainability of agricultural activities and the need of clean water for future generations. 

     Suitable problem solution has not been found yet because this is also related to nature and surrounding ecosystem. If I am able to give suggestion, biopore. The biopore technique involves creating infiltration holes by intentionally drilled to absorb water and maintain the sustainability of microorganisms within.