Abstrack:
Participatory water management in community aims to anticipate the global warming effect in the area where lacking of water resources such as in Giripurwo. Participatory water management is an alternative solution towards limited water service in peri-urban areas. In the case of Giripurwo hamlet, there are three clean water sources, namely, Pego, Bekah and Tangis which have not yet effectively managed nor efficiently used. These sub-surface river have provided clean water using gravitational system to distribute clean water equally to each water reservoir in different administrative units. During rainy season local community relies upon rainwater reservoir or shallow dug well pump. However, it is common for them to buy clean water supply provided by regular tanks with proximately 5.000 IDR per liter during rainy or dry season. This research aims to observe effective capacity improvement to create better participatory water management in Giripurwo area. The research methods collects data using forum group discussion and describe research finding using qualitative manner. The preliminary result indicates that 1) participatory water management is somewhat lacking; 2) it requires further improvement which relates to increase local knowledge; 3) the promoted program to improve local capacity should engage with other stakeholder, such as academics, private sectors, non government organization and or local government. The local community have identified some possible activities such as, early education to clean water management, dissemination of water filtration management. In the micro scale, household level yet provide pivotal role in strengthening local capacity, however in macro scale, communal level have set target group to maintain clean water service. Initially, their institutional base to create better participatory water management has just started, however their ability to improve is promising, especially due to strong involvement from diverse stakeholders.
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