Pekanbaru city as the capital of Riau province actively conducts physical development, which has implications on land use and population density. These conditions give impact to the declining quality of groundwater, caused by contaminated resulting from community activities.
Based RPJMN 2015-2019, coverage of drinking water services throughout Indonesia in 2019 must have reached 100%. While the coverage of drinking water services in the city of Pekanbaru in 2014, especially through the pipeline only reached 8%. These services are served by PDAM Tirta Siak, where most people rely on groundwater for drinking water.