ABSTRACT
The growth of urban public service infrastructure never keep up with their population growth in developing countries.
Residential water use (RWU) over half of total municipal water consumption in most urban within developed countries. RWU
requires higher quality and reliability, which in turn leads to higher costs. Historically, RWU is directly linked with the health
of the general public and is crucial to the well being of a society. RWU shows a strong positive correlation with living
standards and is one of the important proxies for economic development. Many factors affect residential water demand. such
as water tariff; education level; income; water storage media; water metering; temperature and precipitation; household size,
people numbers at a house, house age, number of families in a house, the rise in employement and the number of labor force
in urban areas. These attributes and their interrelationship have dynamics characteristic.
PDAM Bandung for example, in this last 5 years, the average of the urban water coverage services growth 0.65%, and
Bandung municipal population growth is 1.42% per year. Total RWU is 72% from PDAM total water allocation. It serves 1.6
milion (66%) from the total registered population.
The water supply capacity is 2706 liter/ second. The water sources are from surface water (86.51%), ground water and
springs (13.49%). The production and distribution capacity usage is 84.7%. The non revenue water is decreased, from 50.6%
in year 2006 into 38% in year 2010; However, that number is still higher than PDAM target (20%). In financial management
point of view, the tariff adjustment is done twice within 10 years and the billing lifecycle always late around 42 days. PDAM
Bandung never have profit at all. In human resource performance, an employee serve 5.5 customers in average.
The above information is based on previous research. The primary data is obtained thru series of interview with PDAM
management. Medium long term and long term plan (RJPM and RJPP) of Bandung municipal and PDAM are treated as the
secondary data. PDAM and Bandung Municipal RJPM, RSJPP data are treated as the secondary data.
If Bandung population historical data is extrapolated until year 2020, with the current PDAM Bandung performance,
Bandung will experience water scarcity in year 2016. and impossible for PDAM Bandung to expanding the coverage services
until it reaches 80%.
This research is to figure out the current condition of PDAM Bandung, the challenges faced by them and the recommendation
to overcome the challenges. This research is part of the overall research which will figure out the dynamics behavior of urban
water coverage services expansion programme and to determine the most optimal program to enlarge PDAM coverage
services .
Keywords
Bandung Municipal RJPM & RSJPP, Residential Water usage, household, PDAM Bandung, Non Revenue Water