Abstract
The aim of this report is in order to illustrates the overall river water quality in Indonesia in the form of whisker box plot graph. Whisker box plot is a convenient way of graphically depicting groups of numerical data trough five numbers summaries: the smallest observation, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and largest observation. Median value is usefull tool to arrange the position of each river in the graph to indicated the level of river water pollution compared with each other. River water data were collected from all over Indonesia including 33 rivers of 30 provinces in 2007 and separated regarding to five regional areas including Jawa , Sumatera, Kalimantan, BaliNusra and Sumapua regional area. The result indicated that DO, BOD, COD, fenol, fecal coli and total coliform were major pollution of river water in Indonesia. According to the median value of each parameter including BOD, COD, NO3, NH3, T-P, oil & grease and MBAS, Anafre river located in Papua Province were more polluted than other rivers in Indonesia. Fecal coli and total coliform were also tend to be major pollution of the river located in dense population of Jawa regional area including Ciliwung river in Jakarta. Batu Merah and Batu Gajah river located in Maluku Province were also tend to be high contaminated by fecal coli. Regarding to these condition it is necessary to manage river water quality in order to keep the river water quality suitable for creature or human life, since domestic, industrial, agricultural and animal husbandry waste have affected the river water quality
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
