This condition is in line with the growing proliferation of slum areas in the city. Slum area in the city of Batam in 1994 spread across 59 locations and consists of about 12,000 homes. This slum area has reached a critical stage because it began to threaten the flow of raw water supplied to the reservoir, which then become a source of drinking water after being processed by the installation of water purifiers. The threat is in addition to pollute the water also raising sedimentation so that damage the environment and could cause flooding (Kompas, 1994).
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