City and district of Kupang are areas that face problem of imbalance
demand – supply domestic water. Customers of PDAM complain about its water
quality, quantity, continuity, and PDAM’s management system. Based on this
issue, this research will (1) Identify the water – supply system that applied by
PDAM Kabupaten Kupang both in term of its components (elements) and way of
its system working; (2) Identify the fitness of water – supply system that applied
by PDAM Kabupaten Kupang to the referred standard of water quality, quantity,
continuity, accessibility and affordability; (3) Identify the root problem of water –
supply system of PDAM Kabupaten Kupang; (4) Provide recommendations of
solution to overcome the problem of PDAM Kabupaten Kupang.
The data analysis of obtained data (primary and secondary) will be
conducted in simple descriptive analysis to describe real situation of water supply
system of PDAM Kabupaten Kupang. It is about comparing the real situation to
reffered standard applied by PDAM Kabupaten Kupang. Questionaire result will
support this analysis. Causal relationship analysis is applied to the problems in
PDAM Kabupaten Kupang to identify the root cause of the problem.
After conducting the research, the results are as follows: (1) Water supply
system applied by PDAM Kabupaten Kupang is similar to common water supply
system, except there is no treatment facilities. Each water source have their own
system and service zone. There is no point to collect water from all water sources.
There are two types of water sources i.e. spring and drilling well; (2) Water
supply system that applied by PDAM Kabupaten Kupang partially meets the
parameters of referred standar i.e. quality, quantity, continuity, and PDAM
managements and fully meets the accessibility and affordability; (3) The root
cause of PDAM Kabupaten Kupang problem is its management both technical and
non technical aspects. (4) The recommendation that can be drawn to overcome the
problem in PDAM Kabupaten Kupang is PDAM should improve its management
both technical and non technical management.
Keywords: water supply system, parameters of water supply system, quality,
quantity, continuity, accessibility, affordability and management.