Water availability in Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park Area

Abstract

Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park (TNGP) has a role to supply the water for some towns for example Bogor, Cianjur, Sukabumi and Jakarta. In order to get water availability to continu, water resource conservation is needed. One of the basic data that is needed for water resource conservation Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park is potential to keep water. By the Methode of Water Balance (Thornthwaite and Mather, 1957), TNGP is potential to keep water is 548.960.480 m3/year. So that regulation of the use of water is needed. Use of water no more than potential to keep of water.