ASSESSMENT OF INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABILITY OF ACEH MEUREUDU RIVER BASIN

Integrated water resource management contributes significantly in addressing the upsurge in water demands and challenges. The Global Water Partnership (GWP) defined the overall concept based on economic growth, accurate coordination, food security, health improvement, and social equity without compromising the sustainability system. Therefore, a need for consensus development and stakeholder involvement at every level becomes very paramount. However, the integration of sectoral organization within a particular river basin and effective management information appears imperative but complex to achieve due to political differences, individual interests, institutional influence, and objectives. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sustainability of water resource management in Aceh Meureudu River Basin in a multidimensional and integrated approach by considering the social, economic, environmental, engineering, legal, and institutional frameworks. Furthermore, multi-dimensional scaling by a modified Rapfish software known as Rap-river basin was employed to calculate the percentage sustainability of several dimensions and reviewed attributes. The results of the MDS analysis on the Aceh Meureudu River Basin show the value of the sustainability of the technical (43.15), legal (43.07), and institutional (43.87) dimensions that fall into the less sustainable category. Some attributes do not indicate the direction of sustainable integrated water resources management. Value of sustainability the social (54.35), economic (53.40), and environmental (53.13) dimensions can be said to lead to the sustainability of the system even though the value is still low. Great efforts are needed to overcome this inequality so that the IWRM of the Aceh Meureudu River Basin is sustainable. © 2021 Int. J. of GEOMATE. All Rights Reserved.