DEVELOPING WWTP-MAR-CWM SCHEME AS A WATER SCARCITY ADAPTATION IN INDONESIA BASED ON SWOT-AHPANALYSIS

• Main Author: Intan Fitriani, Syahesti
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Teknik saniter dan perkotaan; teknik perlindungan lingkungan
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/80427
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Indonesia is a tropical archipelagic country with 6% of the world's potential water availability. However, perhaps it has been more than a half century, Indonesia cannot avoid the growing risk of water scarcity. The social-economic factors, green land transitions, water pollution and climate change, all of them have contributed to built an unusual hydrological cycle. Facing these issues, several important and useful adaptation and mitigation actions were carried out by the government. But, Indonesia still has a number of urgent reasons that make this limited water management is very crucial, such as the water deficits risk caused by the high fluctuation of water availability, rapid water demand growth and excessive water use, pollution, as well as the risk of extreme drought in the near future. This background has motivated us to conduct a research in order to propose the development of a conjunctive water management system through the WWTP-MAR-CWM scheme in Indonesia. Based on this idea, various literature studies were carried out, and the SWOT-AHP analysis method were adopted, to evaluate the potential for its application in Indonesia and find out the list of improvement strategies needed. As a result, twenty-one SWOT factors were identified. AHP analysis with eight experts of integrated water resources management then concluded: (1) a massive support from the government for water infrastructure projects (17,5%), (2) good cooperation with the donors or the non-governmental organizations (7,5%), and (3) an adequate legislative framework (6,0%), are the three main strategic factors that need to be maximized and prioritized by Indonesian water managers when they will implement this WWTP-MAR-CWM scheme sustainably. Twelve strategies were then suggested based on these relative importance weights. Hopefully, this study can bring some useful knowledges, inspire and motivate the application and the development of Indonesian water research topic related to it.