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INDRAGIRI HILIR, Indonesia — Dahniar starts worrying after a few days without rain during the dry season here on the northeast coast of Sumatra. Across the world, climate change is worsening the water stress felt in villages like Kuala Selat. Some 436 million children live in areas of high or extreme water stress, while three-quarters of all natural disasters from 2001-2018 were water related, according to UNICEF,
“For those who can’t afford it, sometimes they’ll ask us,” Suryati said. “If we know they’re hard up, we give it away for free.” Like more than 500 other district and city governments across Indonesia, Indragiri Hilir is working toward that goal by supporting the local water utility and drilling wells for outlying communities.