PENGELOLAAN AIR DIKALANGAN PENDUDUK MISKIN DI KOTA SEMARANG: PEMBELAJARAN DARI TINGKAT LOKAL
ABSTRACT: Fulfillment of water
services for urban poor is still- an issue among academicians and
practicioners. Eventhough the Law has stated that access to clean water is the
rights of each citizens, there are still numbers of poor people that have no
access to clean water. For the urban poor, access to clean water have to be
traded off with expensive price. It leads to the household water expenses,
reach to more than half of total household expenses. Nowadays, water services
from government provider (PDAM) have not reach all possible customers. Limited
infrastructure and water sources give impacts to limited services from PDAM
This situation also apply for Semarang City case, PDAMTirta Moedal can only
reach about .fifty percent of peoples demand For solving the problems, there
are some initiatives coming from local people for fulfilling water needs
co/ectively such as in Sukorejo and Tugurejo. These two local/eve/ water
fulfi/lement systems, showed how the flexibility of local people can help in
fulfilling the need of citizen to clean water. This article describes the
process of local people developing these initiatives, the mechanism of water
fulfillment in each system, impact of the water management in the local level
to its accessibility and its sustainability. These initiatives can be used as
lesson learned for other areas.
Penulis: Laksmi Rachmawati,
Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologidd110168
