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Indonesia Institute of Sciences  (LIPI) in cooperation with UNESCO held The UNESCO Asia  and  the Pacific Regional Training Workshop  on  Water Quality  and  Emerging Pollutants in Jakarta on Tuesday (27/11) . Senior Program Specialist of UNESCO Jakarta , Hans Dencker Thulstrup  attended the workshop representing Director of  UNESCO  Jakarta , Shahbaz Khan. On the sidelines of the workshop, Hans Dencker Thulstrup  to Voice of Indonesia said that clean water is  important to maintain human welfare, livelihood and healthy environment for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Hans Dencker stated the importance of scientific exchange from experts so that that the SDGs program can be achieved and people in the world can get clean water for life survival.

"UNESCO looks particular at the contribution of science and the knowledge exchange knowledge for water pollutant effect sampling this case. So, what is happening with this workshop we have  and bringing expertise  from Indonesia and some other region to address particular issue of emerging pollutants, so these are new emerging  pollutant whether knowledge  may be limited , but we hope to enhance and strengthen that knowledge  for better management. So,  we try to  create association between knowledge management enhancement," said Hans Dencker Thulstrup.

Meanwhile, researcher of Limnology Research Center of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Ignasius Dwi Atmana said  that data and evaluation related to water pollutant in Asia and Pacific is considered insufficient, whereas observation, evaluation and report related to the emerging pollutant resource very substantial. Ignasius hoped that the workshop attended by 15 countries can answer the challenges for the sake of providing clean water. Moreover, Ignasius said pollutants can come from pharmaceutical, household and industrial waste continuously released to the environment. (VOI/Ahmad Faisal/AHM)