Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is one of the most populated cities in the world. It is also one of the fastest sinking cities on the planet. The city is estimated to be sinking at a rate of up to 6.7 inches (17 centimeters) a year.
The main reason for Jakarta’s sinking is the over-abstraction of groundwater. The city’s water authority pumps around 40 percent of the total groundwater extracted from the world’s largest aquifer, the Citarum River Basin. Jakarta …