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June 23rd, 2010
BMKG Warns Harmful Acid Rains in Indonesia

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Contrary to the clean look in rainwater pouring the country’s land, the weather agency finds most of the  rainwater contains harmful pollutions that are feared to harm environment and affect human health.The weather agency categorized the polluted rainwater as acid rains with acidity scale having gone down the tolerable level of 5.6.A report by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) shows acidity level of the  rainwater, measured by potential for hydrogen (pH), in Jakarta, Bogor (West Java), Pontianak (West Kalimantan) and Manado (North Sulawesi) was among the lowest in the country. Read More