Holistic Water Management at the Community Level, Case Study Jabung District, Malang Regency, Indonesia
Ismu Rini Dwi Ari (a*), Wara Indira Rukmi (b), Nidyaul Elya (c)
a, b, c) Regional and Urban Planning Department, Engineering Faculty Brawijaya University.
Jl. MT. Haryono no. 167 Malang 65145 Indonesia
*dwiari[at]ub.ac.id
Abstract
Access to safe water as a basic infrastructure is still a major problem throughout the world, and it is the main concentration to be solved as stated in SDGs pillars 6 and 9. Availability access to basic needs such as infrastructure of water is also one important homework to deal with for the Indonesian government along with the Universal Access 100-0-100. The main research aim is to measure the Water Poverty Index through the 5-component to propose a poverty eradication strategy of the water infrastructure at the community level. Jabung District in Malang Regency is chosen as the case study, consist of 15 villages, wherein at about 33,19% of households are the receiver of Raskin (Poor Rice) program – one of the poverty alleviation programs in Indonesia. Both field observation and depth interviews are conducted towards 548 heads of households at the compiling data. The WPI measurement indicates that 3 of the 15 villages have the unsafe value of WPI. Among the fifth component, the environment shows the worst scale of the WPI whereby 7 villages have a value of 35,7 (critical value), so integrated water management strategy by incorporating water balance for both domestic and non-domestic purposes is indispensable.
Keywords: Safe water, infrastructure, Water Poverty Index
Topic: Sustainable Development