The “jamban systems” for water conservation in the face of climate change and their benefit to local people

Abstract

Abstract Drought occurrence is a global problem that has an impact on both ecological systems and human beings, so some of the local people, chiefly in rural areas, have tried to create water harvesting using traditional techniques, one of which is the “small reservoir” type. Those types of water conservation and water availability on a small scale, alongside it, have become one strategy for coping with drought, which is caused by climate change impacts, alongside it is part of local economic development. Hence, this research aimed to explore and identify the “Jamban system” functions of local people in their daily lives, so the direct observation and in-depth individual interviews methods, thence the analytical contents of the field data that were used to identify and analyze it, alongside its ethnographic approach. The result of this research, qualitatively, shows that “Jamban systems” have many functions, which are used in aquaculture, the aqua-plants, the water availability or stock, and they also cope with climate change impacts. These were part of the multifunction that is used by the local people to meet their daily demand for family-scale water conservation, alongside the water conservation paradigm, which would be social resilience system shaped.