Water Pollution and Its Correlation to Mineral Water Consumption Expenditure

Abstract

Water is a basic need for human life. However, challenges of access to clean and healthy water are increasingly being by pollution. This condition forces households to pay for clean and healthy mineral water. This study examines the distribution of water pollution levels and household mineral water consumption in Indonesia. It examines the relationship between water pollution and the spending the household mineral water consumption. The data used in this study are water pollution level data for 2021 from the raw data of PODES 2021 and spending of consumption the household mineral water data from the raw data of the SUSENAS 2021. Both data were analyzed using correlation analysis to calculate the r value. Then the data is presented in a map of the distribution of water pollution and mineral water consumption spending by districts in Indonesia. The results showed that the correlation of the two variables had a positive value of 0.026. Even though the relationship is not very strong, this proves that the higher the water pollution, the greater the spending for household consumption of mineral water.. Kalimantan Island is an area with a high water pollution level. In the distribution of mineral water consumption expenditure for households, Indonesia is classified as having a low consumption level, while DKI Jakarta Province is an area that has high mineral water consumption expenditure of an average of IDR 183,396/month.