Analisis Kualitas Air Sungai dan Masalah Kulit pada Masyarakat Pengguna Sungai Asahan Kelurahan Kuala Silo Bestari Tanjung Balai Utara 2020

Abstract

Water quality is the level of water quality conditions that indicate polluted conditions or good conditions in a water source within a certain time by comparing it with the established water quality standards. Based on Government Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia No. 82 of 2001 concerning water quality management and water pollution control. Water contaminated by pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses can directly affect the health of human body. water quality based on physical, chemical and biological parameters will have an impact on public health. The use of water that does not meet health requirements has implications for disease complaints for its users. The problem in this study is that the Asahan River becomes a waste disposal site so that the river water is cloudy and the people in Kuala Silo Bestari Village still use Asahan River water for their daily needs. This study aims to analyze the quality of river water with appropriate parameters based on PP. No. 82 of 2001 and skin health complaints that occurred in the Asahan River users in Kuala Silo Bestari Village, Tanjung Balai Utara, with using measurement methods in the form of interviews and laboratory examination techniques, using river water examination techniques such as temperature, TDS, DO, BDO, CDO, pH, fecal coli or E.coli and total coliform. The results showed that the water quality carried out at 3 water sample points in Kuala Silo Bestari Village showed that the physical parameter assessment obtained a score of 0, where the value met the quality standard, the chemical parameter assessment obtained a score of -22. With total score obtained -22 where the value belongs to the moderately polluted category, the microbiological parameter assessment obtained a score of 0, where the value meets the quality standard, while the complaints suffered by the community around the Asahan river, Kuala Silo Bestari Village are scabies where from 23 research samples 6 of them (26,09%) experienced this skin disease, many skin diseases only occurred a few times with low intensity (<15% and for other diseases, diarrhea was one of the most common diseases, which was 17.39%.