Study of Clean Water Needs Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Abstract

Clean water in human life has a very important function. The Human need for clean water is directly proportional to the population growth. In Balikpapan, which is the capital city of East Kalimantan Province has population 735,850 people by 2015, which represents 22% of total population of East Kalimantan. The results obtained for needs of clean water have not been sufficient and the water quality data has qualified the water requirements Class I. In the calculation of clean water needs of Balikpapan City above, the percentage of non-domestic with domestic demand is 50.30% its mean Balikpapan City have a lot of facility especially office and international company. Balikpapan City needs to immediately add the capacity of Intake because in 2017, is unable to meet the needs of clean water in Balikpapan City. Tirta Manggar PDAM has almost reached 80% service coverage, but loss of water equal to 36.92%.