CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS TO THE LACK OF WATER SUPPLY IN INDONESIAN URBAN

Abstract

ABSTRACT
This study aimed at finding key factors which cause lack of water supply in Indonesian
urban and develop the key factors which solve it. Relevant literatures bearing on the
issue of urban water supply were studied. The city of Jakarta was taken as
representative of Indonesian urban. For the purpose of finding the causes and
developing the related solutions, relevant data bearing to the city’s water supply system
were analysed. It was found that the lack of water supply in urban areas manifests in the
exceeding of water demand over supply, low piped-water coverage, and intermittency
of water supply; whereas poor governance and low water tariff are the root factor which
cause them. Consequently good governance and higher water tariff were proposed as
the solutions to the problem. It also showed that the perception that urban poor cannot
afford to pay water at full price, is but mythical.