People’s preference on water supply in uncovered Bandung water municipal company area service

Putro, Heru Purboyo Hidayat

International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

EISSN: 2313-3724

Print ISSN: 2313-626X

Volume 3, Issue 12 (December 2016), Pages: 113-117

Title: People’s preference on water supply in uncovered Bandung water municipal company area service

Author(s): Heru Purboyo Hidayat Putro

Affiliation(s):

Department of Regional and City Planning, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2016.12.015

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Abstract:

One of the problems of water services in urban areas, especially in Bandung, is due to the low coverage of services area. The limitations of the water pipe network services, which is considered as an ideal service by water municipal company, has an impact on alternative uses of other sources such as private wells, communal, rainwater, river water or buying from other sources. The main objective of this study is to assess the water supply system in the uncovered region in Bandung area, which focused on the economic aspects through the analysis of cost effectiveness, service aspects are evaluated based on indicators of overall water services and also preferences towards the services by means of offering water services to the public live in the study area. The survey and analysis results on uncovered areas in Bandung shows that is as much as 81% using wells system, either deep wells or shallow wells, while the other 17% are using the communal spring services, and 2% bought water. This study showed that the existing water services are considered as cost-effectiveness and most people prefer to remain to utilize existing services as long as the performances of the existing services are not having any problem.

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords: Municipal water company, Service coverage, Cost-effectiveness analysis, Bandung

Article History: Received 18 July 2016, Received in revised form 3 November 2016, Accepted 19 December 2016

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2016.12.015

Citation:

Putro HPH (2016). People’s preference on water supply in uncovered Bandung water municipal company area service. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 3(12): 113-117

http://www.science-gate.com/IJAAS/V3I12/Putro.html

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