Resource management issues of environmental services in a Changing upper watershed: the case of Cicatih-Cimandiri basin, West Java

摘要

Development of the Cicatih-Cimandiri basin in the past decades has been characterized by burgeoning of bottled drinking water companies that utilies springs and groundwater resources, along with the traditional agricultural uses and local domestic water supplies. The present paper tried to discuss the resource management issues and to describe the resources of the upper forested watershed and their environmental services. The biophysical conditions will be explored to find ways to understand the watershed functions and to find measures of environmental services. There is a strong indication that local community tends to utilize the Cicatih water resources efficiently and very willing to pay for environmental services such as to pay compensation for conversation cost to ensure the sustainability of upper watershed resources. The same thing needs to be done by the drinking water companies in the area that apparently would require more efforts to come to common understanding on sustainable resource management through accepted policy and principles.