The Roles of Village Government for Rural Water Infrastructure Development

Agus Susanto, M. Yanuar J. Purwanto, Bambang Pramudya, Etty Riani

Abstract: Raw water supplyin the rural area still relies on the natural resources (classical), i.e.groundwater, springs, and local water supply company (LWSC) with distribution service10%, consequently, the village community experience vulnerability of water supplyin dry season.Therefore, it is neededto provide a sustainable water supply through concern for new water paradigm with water sensitive city (WSC) approach. This research aimsto design adynamics model of village roles in the development of raw water supply infrastructure with a concern for new water paradigm. The analysisusesdynamics system with Powersim version 2.5a. The simulation results reveal: (a) with business as usual scenario the raw water supply of Bendungan village is only sufficient for 10 years in the future, i.e. in 2025. The condition is very vulnerable, because the raw water supply is less than the water demand, (b) with concern for water scenario through infrastructure: retention basin, domestic wastewater treatment (DWT), and industry wastewater treatment (IWT), raw water supply increase 72% tthat is from 10 to 55 years in 2070, and (c) with capacity building scenario of community members and village government officials, especially on their understanding of raw water supply through training, extension, and assistanceto build and manage the water infrastructure, raw water supply will increase again to 11%, that is from 55 - 62 years i.e. in 2077.

Keywords: infrastructure, concern of water, raw water