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This research provides recommendations for action in order to reduce waste pollution, improve water quality, and strengthen the community economy through the development of alternative economies, especially those based on water-tourism through the concept of supply chain management in Saguling Reservoir inlet. There are three research questions in this study. First, what efforts can be done to improve water quality and reduce waste pollution that occurs in the Citarum River, especially in the Saguling Reservoir inlet? Second, is there a relationship between poor water quality and waste pollution with the perceptions, attitude, and behavior of people living in the Saguling Reservoir inlet? Third, what efforts can be made to strengthen the socio-economic level of the people who are in the Saguling Reservoir so that their social status is more prosperous compared to their socio-economic conditions before the Saguling Reservoir was built? This research was conducted in Jelegong Village which is one of the villages in the Saguling Reservoir Inlet, and has been running for three months in 2017. Three villages were selected from 14 villages as research samples with different livelihood criteria to see the patterns of social-economic activities. As the research sample, Jelegong Village will be presented in this study with the livelihood of the population in the industrial field. The research method was used is Participatory Action Research (PAR), which is a research process that places respondents under study as research partners, both in the process of collecting, compiling, analyzing data, and in the process of drawing conclusion and formulating action of recommendations. This study uses five instruments that are accommodated from participatory rural action, namely social-economic mapping, village transect, seasonal calender, diagram-venn of stakeholder, and livelihood analysis. This study involved 150 respondents from 50 families in Jelegong. There are four results from this study, namely, social-economic profile map of the Jelegong community; recommendations for strengthening the economy of living community; a description of the perceptions, attitudes and behavior of the people related to the decline in river water quality and high waste pollution; and recommendations for action on how to reduce waste pollution in the Saguling Reservoir inlet, specifically in Jelegong region. From these results, researcher formulated recommendations for the arrangement of the area that should be done in Jelegong Village related to water tourism. Water tourism that needs to be formed is tourism with nuances of education, and also with the existence of rivers and water quality in order to improve the welfare of living together. The formulation of recommendations is built on the concept of tourism supply chain management on the basis of community development and education on the importance of protecting the river and water. All these results of this study off