Drinking Water Management for Small and Rural Cities Before PDAM IsAvailable


Human dependence on water is getting bigger in the direction of increasing society. The predicate of the earth becomes "Planet Water" with 70% of the earth's surface covered with water contrary to the condition of the Earth which faces water scarcity caused by some people who exploit water excessively and are not responsible. Fortunately, Indonesia has a special water distribution agency. Are you familiar with the meaning of PDAM? The PDAM is a business body formed by the government that makes distributing water to housing easier, making the clean water supply of each house secure. Plus some other reliefs such as checking bills and payment steps, you can pay by off line or pay the PDAM water bill online which can be done anywhere.



In this article, we will describe a little about the control of drinking water for small towns and villages before the formation of the PDAM. Please read and hopefully this explanation can improve your information and discourse about government agencies operating in the water distribution sector.

The construction of infrastructure and drinking water facilities in small cities (with less than 50,000 people) is carried out by the Ministry of Public Works. So the management was made by the Drinking Water Management Body (BPAM) which, together with the local government, was upgraded to become the Regional Water Supply Company (PDAM). While the construction of infrastructure and drinking water facilities in rural areas is carried out by the Directorate General of the Eliminating Spread Disease and Environmental Sanitation (PPM-PL), the Ministry of Health is assisted by the Directorate General of Village Residents Development (PMD), the Ministry of Home Affairs. The plan, implementation and control scheme is ensured by the central government through the technical department that is in charge.

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During this time assistance for cooperation and foreign loans through bilateral and multilateral financial institutions has always increased. Although in a small ratio, NGOs began to participate in the provision of drinking water infrastructure and facilities in rural and small cities with the help of funds from several non-profit donors. Along with the increase in the autonomy lawsuit, to drive the ability of regional governments to take care of the construction of water infrastructure and facilities, a central government grant process for the regional government was made. Even though the level of scope of services to citizens has increased with relevance, but the capacity to use infrastructure and facilities that have been made is actually not very pleasant, many infrastructure and facilities cannot be operated because they are not properly maintained.

Pelita IV is the starting point for citizen involvement and involvement of NGOs at the regional and national levels in the implementation of government projects funded by international financial institutions. The idea of ​​citizen ownership and an approach based on needs (Responsive Request Approach) began to be widely accepted, even though the realization was still limited. Infrastructure development projects and social facilities (PKT, P3DT, etc.), including infrastructure and drinking water facilities and environmental sanitation, were accepted as the development approach of choice with quite diverse results.

In this approach a new breakthrough was made in the distribution of the government budget by providing opportunities for citizens to participate directly in the construction of infrastructure and facilities. Local governments act as facilitators and technical coaches. However, the scope of service was not as expected. The old problem continues to be repetitive in infrastructure and drinking water facilities namely the lack of maximum use of infrastructure and drinking water facilities that have been made because of the inability of residents to run and maintain it.

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