QuickCheck: Is Jakarta sinking due to people excessively digging wells?

Jakarta is home to over 10 million people, making it one of the largest cities by population on the planet.

THE global warming phenomenon has placed many human settlements across our planet at risk of being erased from the map.

Our neighbour Indonesia has not been spared with its capital Jakarta now under threat of being submerged after it began sinking over the past few decades. Often, such a phenomenon is attributed to the rising sea level. However, some quarters have claimed that another factor is at play in Jakarta. They pointed to the extremely high number of wells being dug up by locals as being the cause, which has exacerbated the problem.