ECONOMIC VALUATION AND POTENTIAL POLLUTION LOAD ANALYSIS OF DOMESTIC WASTEWATER IN GREATER BANDUNG

• Main Author: Rakhmadi, Adhitya
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/58108
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Sanitation in the developing countries is still a major problem. The lack of awareness and low education level are the main factors causing 30% of the people are still practices open defecation. This problems are getting worse because of the population growth, are not followed by the availability of sanitation infrastructure and services, leading to people, mostly still discharge their domestic waste water into the river. According to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (2017) domestic waste water contribute a big portion to Citarum River’s pollution by 68%, making the Citarum River one of the most polluted river in the world. The dense and hectic domestic activity in Greater Bandung Area, leads to a degradation in water quality and environment degradation can cause a lot of health issues and economical problem for the people that lived there. From the calculation of domestic waste pollution estimation potential, and analysing using SFD tools, the people in Greater Bandung produced 292 tons of BOD/day (106.580,25 ton/year), 401,5 tons of COD/day (131.101 ton/year), and 277,4 tons of TSS/day (101.251 ton/year), and ironically only 10,54% of the waste generated are safely managed, and the 89,46% of the rest are unsafely managed. The pollution can cause several problem including health and some more economical loss. The economical loss of the people of MBR is IDR 4.272.287.278.998/year or IDR 519.306/person/year. The economic loss from the health sector is responsible for about 29% of the total cost, it cost IDR 1.217.720.640.356/year or Rp 148.016/person /year. Followed by clean water access cost for IDR 3.054.566.638.642/year or IDR 371.289/person /year (71%). This amount of cost are equivalence to 1,23% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the people in Metropolitan Bandung Area.