Water resource management strategy for urban water purposes in Dili Municipality, Timor-Leste

ABSTRACT

There are various factors in Dili’s water system responsible for the water scarcity problem in the city. Hence, there is a need for strategic plans which could be used as guidelines in improving its water system. The objective of this study was to formulate a strategic plan for water resource management in Dili. The process commenced with the identification of external and internal factors. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to weight the score at the input stage. The alternative strategies were formulated with the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) matrix. Furthermore, the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) was used to select the priority strategy at the decision stage. Based on the results, a total of 13 internal and 13 external factors were identified, while five alternative strategies formulated. Moreover, the selected strategy as the priority for implementation has the capacity of developing the water resource management infrastructure in Dili, as well as improving the water supply system performance in meeting the urban water demand.

KEYWORDS:

• Strategic planning
• water resource management
• strategic factors
• priority strategy

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the National Directorate of Water and Sanitation, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communication and Research for the support provided to this research and to the Dili Institute of Technology for funding the project.

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Notes on contributors

Aderita Takeleb

Aderita Mariana Takeleb is a lecture in Civil Engineering Department and researcher in hydrology and water resource engineering area at Dili Institute of Technology. Aderita has included in of Australian Without Border Dili activity and has gave Presentation about Engineering Education in Timor Leste at 2011 Year of Humanitarian Engineering, Melbourne. Aderita is also as a National Individual Hydrology and Water Supply Consultant at Asian Development Bank since 2015. She is trainedCertificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training. Now she is conducting research related to water supply in Timor Leste.

Joko Sujono

Joko Sujono is the Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada. He is a professor of hydrology with more than 30 years of experience in water resources and hydrology. He has published a number of papers such as A comparison of techniques for hydrograph recession analysis (2004) and recent papers relating to Drought Index for Peatland Wildfire Management in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia During El Nino Phenomenon (2019). Now, he is conducting research related to satellite-based rainfall in Indonesia.

Rachmad Jayadi

Rachmad Jayadi is an associate professor of water resources engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. His research interests are related to rainfall-runoff modeling, water related disaster management, and water resources optimization. Rachmad Jayadi has contributed scientific papers in the Journal of Disaster Research, Proceedings of the 3^th World Irrigation Forum, International Journal of GEOMATE, International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Materials, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, Proceeding of the 37^th IAHR World Congress, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage. He is a member of Indonesian Association of Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (INACID) and Indonesian Association of Hydraulic Engineers (HATHI). He has served as a Head of the Master Program in Water Resources Management, Head of the Master Program in Natural Disaster Management, Universitas Gadjah Mada.