water Article Strategy for Realizing Regional Rural Water Security on Tropical Peatland Henny Herawati 1,* , Kartini 1, Aji Ali Akbar 2 and Tatang Abdurrahman 3 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak 78124, Indonesia;
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[email protected] Abstract: Fulfilling the need for clean water and proper sanitation is, globally, a basic human requirement, and Indonesia is no exception. Clean water and adequate sanitation are the sixth goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and targets include to ensure the availability of clean water and sustainable sanitation for all by 2030. The achievement of targets in water supply and sanitation in Indonesia is still lagging behind other fields. There are differences in the ease of obtaining access to clean water sources in urban and rural areas, especially for rural communities living on peatlands who experience issues in being provided with clean water. The difficulty is that, even though the amount of available water is relatively large, its quality is low. Barriers to the equitable distribution of services by the government to the entire community are caused by the limited availability of funding, the geographical conditions of scattered settlements, and the limited capacity of human resources. As a result of this problem, it is necessary to formulate a management strategy for providing access to clean water and sanitation for rural communities on peatlands. This Citation: Herawati, H.; Kartini; research uses the case-study method.