PERMASALAHAN DAN SOLUSI KAWASAN KAWASAN SUMBER AIR DI KABUPATEN MALANG
The availability of clean water in some areas in East Java, especially in Malang district has begun limited or declining and also not evenly distributed across time and between individuals. One of the causes of these problems are due to the behavior of people in the catchment area (cacthment area) and around the source, deliberately or not tends to make matters worse the quality and quantity of resources. It is therefore important in this study discussed is how to find solutions to problems that occurred the source of water. The research uses descriptive method through literature searches related to problems in the area of water resources in Malang. There are two aspects of the problem area of water resources in Malang, namely 1) the aspect of necessity, includes, population continues to grow and increase in activity and an increase in economic and socio-cultural. 2) Aspects of availability, namely, water supply is relatively fixed and tends to decrease, and water quality tends to decrease. The existence of water resources in handling public land would be much more complex because it involves many parties and interests not only individuals but also communities. Water resources in community lands should receive serious attention, because of the pressures of land management in the upstream by people who may not be in accordance with the principles of conservation, not only reduces the amount of resources and the water discharge but can also degrade its quality.