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ASSESSING WHERE SELF-SUPPLIED GROUNDWATER IS
A HEALTH RISK
Masters Stage 1 Assessment
Paul Hansen, Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Supervisors: Prof Juliet Willetts and Dr Tim Foster
Abstract
Self-supply from groundwater sources is common in urban Indonesia and there is strong evidence that many of these sources have faecal contamination. In Indonesia, approximately 58% of urban households use self-supplied sources, predominantly groundwater from dug wells or boreholes. For approximately 28% of urban households (so approximately 44 million people), their self-supplied water is their main drinking water source while for the remaining 30% of households self-supply is only used for non-drinking water purposes (Foster et al., 2021). Water from these self-supplied groundwater sources is often contaminated with pathogens, evidenced by the presence of faecal indicator bacteria (FIB). A study in Metro and Bekasi cities found 66% of sources, including 55% of boreholes, 64% of protected dug wells, and 82% of unprotected dug wells had E Coli present (Genter et al., 2022). In another study in Yogyakarta, E Coli was detected in 89.2% of drinking water sources (Cronin et al., 2017).
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The issues that arise in the study related to this:
- The situation is very complex: physical, social, economic aspects, etc.
- Physical aspects itself have several problems:
- Undocumented hydrogeological data.
- Interaction between river water and groundwater, as well as shallow aquifers and deep aquifers.
- Geological structures that cause number 2 to occur.
- Likewise, social aspects will provide even more variations.
- The DRASTIC method can be used to describe physical aspects, but it should be noted that there is always the possibility that the data required is not available.
- Therefore, it is necessary to search for literature in multiple languages (not just English) to find other scientific papers or documents that contain data or information.
- A kind of expert justification will be needed to explain the different hydrogeological conditions at different study locations, for example for the case of Java Island: the situation in Jakarta, Semarang, and Surabaya, but will be different from Bandung and Yogyakarta.
- Regarding the data. Yes it may be accessed but it cannot be downloaded (it’s not a reproducible data). So i think they’re not data. They’re just a picture of data. We can talk to BKAT office regarding monitoring wells and measure the water quality from those selected wells
- The geological barrier most likely will be weak because we have alluvium sediments. So we have no proper clay layers to seal shallow and deep aquifers.