High Tide Submerges Parts Of Jakarta's Sinking Coastline

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - FEBRUARY 10: A boy walks down a street in a village which is flooded every morning with the high tide due to the sinking of coastal land on February 10, 2021 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, has been sinking for years at the rate of as much as 25 cm (10 in.) per year due largely to the overuse of ground water. Subsidence (the compression and sinking of land) , a growing problem in large coastal megacities around the world is a slow moving disaster leading not only to loss of coastal lands, but increased sensitivity to droughts. (Photo by Ed Wray/Getty Images) (Photo by Ed Wray/Getty Images)