Water and Sanitation in Urban Slum: A Case from Bandung Municipality, West Java, Indonesia

摘要

Providing equal access among urban quintiles is the main challenge inudurban water and sanitation sector. This paper tries to depict the choice and behaviorudregarding drinking water and sanitation of 127 slum households in BandungudMunicipality. Issues explored using close-ended questionnaires are socio-economicudcondition of households; existing condition and use of water and sanitation facilitiesudand strategies in obtaining desired service level of water and sanitation. The resultsudwere analyzed using descriptive statistical method with distribution of percentage. Itudis suggested that households commonly use both improved and unimproved waterudsources, and low coverage of piped water results in reliance on decentralizeduddrinking water sources in urban slum setting. Moreover, inadequate sanitation posesudhouseholds to enteric contamination of water sources and health risks, but may beudcounterbalanced with high dependency on bottled water. The study also proposes theudimportance in securing technical norms and regulation for decentralized water andudsanitation options and promoting household water treatment and safe storageudpractices.