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Enhancing urban water utilities: a case study of Utility of the Future framework implementation in Indonesia Cover

Enhancing urban water utilities: a case study of Utility of the Future framework implementation in Indonesia

Open Access
|Mar 2025

Figures & Tables

FIGURE 1.

Service at the water utility in Palembang in 2022
Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).
Service at the water utility in Palembang in 2022 Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).

FIGURE 2.

Cobwebs and Utility of the Future dimensions of performance and maturity of Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang
Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).
Cobwebs and Utility of the Future dimensions of performance and maturity of Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).

FIGURE 3.

Cobweb of current states and desired levels of the elements: organization and strategy (a), commercial management (b), technical operation (c), and financial management (d)
Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).
Cobweb of current states and desired levels of the elements: organization and strategy (a), commercial management (b), technical operation (c), and financial management (d) Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).

FIGURE 4.

Cobweb of current state and desired level of elements
Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).
Cobweb of current state and desired level of elements Source: Perumda Tirta Musi Palembang (2023a).

Matrices of 100-day action plan

AreaTopicActionTime [week]
Element: Organization & strategy
Business strategystrategic architectureStrategic framework available but not yet updated, including vision, mission, values, and strategic goals. Some of the annual plans are aligned with the strategic framework.8
Efficiency & continuityprocess optimizationAccommodate ideas to improve company performance, create a team that will accommodate, evaluate, and select the best ideas (rewarded), and then report to management.10
Strategic capabilityprocurement managementAnalyze historical data of the procurement process (1‒2 years) by categorizing purchases and contracts (services) based on value, supplier, etc.6
Element: Commercial management
Customer relation managementcommunication strategyWebsite updates and social media (Instagram, Facebook etc.) direct information about zones to be repaired, flow disturbances, tariff structures, publication of water quality test results, bills from large customers, etc.15
Element: technical operation
Asset managementasset recordingAdding criteria to asset applications regarding good, normal, and bad conditions, must be replaced, maintenance.10
maintenance notesDevelop an asset management application for water meters regarding the condition of the water meters, the amount, replacement, and removal of water meters that were previously only connected to PKA and service units to the budget and asset sections.12
Water treatment & qualitywater quality test methodObtain laboratory certification according to ISO 17025:2017 (International Organization for Standardization [ISO], 2017).15
Distribution & non-revenue wateraverage true range (ATR) of management strategyReports to management on the state of non-revenue water in the district metered area (level of non-revenue water, critical areas, key issues, etc.), as well as possible solutions in the short- and long-term (estimated cost of possible solutions).12
Element: Financial management
Planning & budgetingbudget systemInstall financial software for work units to monitor budget realization online by budget users (programs can also be monitored by management), and carry out application usage training.5
Accounting & financial reportingasset registerUploading audited financial reports (annual reports) to the website, for example, profit and loss balance.4
Element: Human resource
Compensation, benefits & retentionreward & acknowledgementCreate a set of rules including indicators for employees who innovate and their rewards.12
Culture & valueorganizational cultureChange the habits of employees to carry out energy efficiency (there is already an official memorandum followed by a socialization program for each work unit).10
Element: Energy efficiency
Energy monitoring & reportingstudy & audit regarding energyAnalyze the main sources of energy consumption and the average annual cost of each building/pump. Energy efficiency: pumping, offices.10

Performance level assessment

DomainLevel
elementary (1)basic (2)good (3)well performing (4)world class (5)
Commercial
Collection rate [%]< 60≥ 60–70> 70–90> 90–95> 95
Metering rate (customers metered) [%]< 25≥ 25–60> 60–85> 85–95> 95
Technical
Non-revenue water (NRW) per connection when the system is pressurized [L⋅h−1]> 50> 25–50> 12–25> 6–12≤ 3–6
Financial management
Earnings before interest, taxes (EBITDA) margin [%]negative< 5%≥ 5–19> 19–30> 30
Human resource management
Staff per 1 000 connections> 10> 6–10> 5–6> 3–5≤ 3
Organization and strategy
Fulfillment of the strategic plan [%]no performance targets< 40≥ 40–80> 80–90> 90

Service assessment criteria

Diagnostic areaAnalysis process
ServiceQualitative and quantitative data analysis
PerformanceQualitative and quantitative data analysis
MaturitySelecting practices that match the utility’s current state using maturity matrices
UoF levelSelecting emerging practices that match the utility’s current state using UoF elements
Enabling environmentSelecting practices that match the utility’s current enabling environment using enabling environment assessment criteria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22630/srees.9849 | Journal eISSN: 2543-7496 | Journal ISSN: 1732-9353
Language: English
Page range: 89 - 105
Submitted on: Jun 2, 2024
Accepted on: Mar 4, 2025
Published on: Mar 30, 2025
Published by: Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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