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Public Works and People Housing Ministry kept increasing new dam development in some provinces to support national water and food resilience. One of the provinces to have more dam is Lampung. In the province, two dams will be built namely Way Sekampung Dam in Pringsewu and Martatiga Dam in Martatiga District. Minister Basuki Hadimuljono in official statement in Jakarta, Sunday said, water resource and irrigation management will be continued to support sustainable agricultural production.

Minister Basuki said, the three dams will also have raw water, energy, flood control, and tourism which will increase local economy. The two dams will complement water management system, including irrigation supply from Batutegi Dam that had been operating since 2005.

Way Sekampung Dam has 68 million cubic meter capacity to add around 15,000 hectares of irrigation in the Sekampung Irrigation System to be total 70 thousand hectares in total. It was expected the planting intensity can be increased 260 percent mainly for Pringsewu Regency.

The dam will also provide raw water for Bandar Lampung City, Metro City, and South Lampung Regency for almost 2,500 liter per second, with 5.4 Megawatt power potential. The dam can reduce flood amounting to 185 meter cubic per second and becoming tourism object in Pringsewu Regency.

Martatiga Dam is under development with capacity of 148 million cubic meter in the downstream of Way Sekampung River. It is projected to water irrigation land for almost 11 thousand hectares and as raw water source with 830 liter per second capacity.

Besides Way Sekampung and Martatiga, there have been Seguruh and Jabung dams. All were built to optimize Way Sekampung River water which has great potential, especially for irrigation.