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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.