Assessment of water quality and its effect on the health of Selong District Resident, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Province

Abstract

Water is the basic resource necessary for sustaining all human activities, so its provision in desired quantity and quality is of utmost importance. Water pollution affects drinking water, which consequently harms human health and the natural environment. The study focuses on measuring the quality of drinking water from dug wells in rural areas of Selong District, East Lombok and its effects on human health. Various analyses, including physical, chemical and microbiological assessment, carried out on the water samples collected from the dug wells in the villages. The result of samples analysis shows high phosphate, showed groundwater pollution has occurred from domestic waste. Microbiological quality was also questionable in most of the cases with high content of total coliform. On the contrary to these findings, most people living in these areas were not suffering from various water-borne diseases. So the study argues about the need and importance of water management systems in current times.