Submerged Indonesian village re-emerges as drought lowers water levels

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 08, 2026 · 63 words

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Submerged Indonesian village re-emerges as drought lowers water levels NewsFeed Submerged Indonesian village re-emerges as drought lowers water levels Drone footage shows the remains of a submerged village re-emerging from Indonesia’s Karian Reservoir as…

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Why it matters

Officials say the reservoir remains within safe operating levels despite an 80 centimeter drop in water level.

Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: Drone footage shows the remains of a submerged village re-emerging from Indonesia’s Karian Reservoir as water levels fall during the dry season.

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Claim 1: “Drone footage shows the remains of a submerged village re-emerging from Indonesia’s Karian Reservoir as water levels fall during the dry season.”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that drone footage shows a submerged village re-emerging from Indonesia's Karian Reservoir due to falling water levels during the dry season.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Marina Beach, or simply the Marina, is a natural urban beach in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, along the Bay of Bengal. The beach runs from near Fort St. George in the north to Foreshore Estate in the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Beach

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web search NEUTRAL — Drone footage shows the remains of a submerged village re-emerging from Indonesia’s Karian Reservoir as water levels fall during the dry season. Officials say the reservoir remains within safe operati…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVh9Cl5M1KQ

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Claim 2: “Officials say the reservoir remains within safe operating levels despite an 80 centimeter drop in water level.”

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While the claim appears in the snippets of the web search results related to the Karian Reservoir event, the other provided evidence (Wikipedia entries on water, Marina Beach, Ooty, and Tsna river) is completely irrelevant. Only the primary reporting source mentions the 80 centimeter drop and safe operating levels; no independent second source corroborates this specific technical detail.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ooty is a town and seat of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located at an altitude of 2,240 m (7,350 ft), in the Nilgiri Mountains, which forms part of the Western Ghats,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooty

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tsna (in its upper part: Mokraya Vershina) is a river in the Tambov and Ryazan oblasts of Russia, a left tributary of the Moksha (Volga basin). The length of the river is 451 km. The catchment are…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsna_(Moksha)

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