Hubungan Sanitasi Lingkungan dengan Kejadian Stunting pada Balita Di Desa Jayabakti Tahun 2021

Stunting merupakan sebuah masalah kesehatan dimana seorang bayi atau anak-anak mengalami hambatan dalam pertumbuhan tubuhnya, sehingga gagal memiliki tinggi yang ideal pada usianya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah melihat hubungan sumber air minum, kepemilikan jamban, sarana pembuangan air limbah dan kepemilikan tempat sampah dengan kejadian stunting di Desa Jayabakti wilayah kerja Puskesmas Pagimana Tahun 2021.Jenis penelitian ini adalah Observasional analitik dengan pendekatan Cross Sectional serta Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan yaitu simple random sampling. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah ibu balita sebanyak 156 responden Analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis bivariat menggunakan uji Chi Squaree. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa tidak terdapat hubungan antara sumber air minum, kepemilikan jamban, dan kepemilikan SPAL dengan kejadian stunting di Desa Jayabakti dengan nilai p value > 0,05. Sedangkan hasil analisis tabulasi kepemilikan tempat sampah di peroleh hasil p value = 0,006 (<0,05), dengan demikian terdapat hubungan antara kepemilikan tempat sampah dengan kejadian stunting. Sanitasi lingkungan secara tidak langsung mempengaruhi gizi balita. Sanitasi yang buruk dapat menimbulkan penyakit infeksi pada balita seperti diare dan kecacingan yang dapat menganggu proses pencernaan dalam proses penyerapan nutrisi, jika kondisi ini terjadi dalam waktu yang lama dapat mengakibatkan masalah stunting. Stunting is a health problem in which a baby or child experiences obstacles in their body growth, so they fail to have the ideal height for their age. The purpose of this study was to see the relationship between drinking water sources, latrine ownership, waste water disposal facilities and ownership of trash bins with stunting in Jayabakti Village, Pagimana Health Center working area in 2021. namely simple random sampling. The sample in this study were mothers of children under five as many as 156 respondents. The data analysis used was bivariate analysis using the Chi Squaree test. The results showed that there was no relationship between drinking water sources, latrine ownership, and SPAL ownership with stunting in Jayabakti Village with p value > 0.05. While the results of the tabulation analysis of the ownership of the trash can obtained the results of p value = 0.006 (<0.05), thus there is a relationship between the ownership of the trash can and the incidence of stunting. Environmental sanitation indirectly affects the nutrition of children under five. Poor sanitation can cause infectious diseases in toddlers such as diarrhea and worms which can interfere with the digestive process in the process of absorption of nutrients, if this condition occurs for a long time it can cause stunting problems.

Water sanitation, hygiene and the prevalence of diarrhea in the rural areas of the delta region of Myanmar

Myanmar is an agriculture-based country with 70% of the total population residing in rural areas. Around half of the total population in Myanmar has to consume water from unimproved sources. The prevalence of diarrhea due to contaminated drinking water is high even in urban areas. The urban community may expect the provision of municipal water supply in the near future if the current revolution in the country succeeds. However, the rural areas have lesser or no chance to get quality water because of a lot of other prioritized tasks. Household water treatment is encouraged to be implemented as one of the national water safety plans for rural water supply in Myanmar. This study explored the diarrhea prevention awareness of the rural community using a questionnaire survey. The microbial quality parameters of drinking water sources were also examined. Fecal coliform contamination was detected in all examined drinking water sources. A significant association was found between drinking untreated water and the occurrence of diarrhea. The percentage of people who applied the diarrhea preventive measures was low. Even if they knew how to prevent the disease, very few people applied the measures in reality. Therefore, measures to cause behavioral change should be initiated, together with awareness raising, to promote diarrhea prevention in the community.

Hazardous Substances and their Effects on Drinking Water Sources

Drinking water cannot be produced from every raw surface or groundwater in the European Union countries. The source must meetthe set criteria for the raw water quaility. At present time, drinking water sources meet these requirements. However in the climatechange period, accompanied in particular by long-term loss of water volumes, the set limit values for individual categories of raw watermay be frequently exceeded. Human society must be prepared for this threat and take legislative and technical-operational steps in atimely manner to eliminate the risk. This paper deals with the issue in the basic scope and declares what producers and steps can beused in practice to increase the resilience of water resources to the expected change in the water quality

Fracking Disclosure, Collateral Value, and the Mortgage Market

This paper examines whether laws requiring oil and gas firms to disclose the chemicals used in their fracking operations affect the mortgage lending activity for properties located in nearby areas. I hypothesize and find that the disclosure mandate reduces uncertainty about the value of housing collateral and subsequently increases 1) the probability of obtaining a mortgage by 2.5 percentage points (pp) and 2) loan-to-value by 2.2 pp. My main analyses exploit the variation in the location of properties relative to fracking wells. Cross-sectional tests that exploit heterogeneity in drinking water sources and the content of firm disclosures further substantiate my inferences and mitigate endogeneity concerns. These findings suggest that disclosure regulation for oil and gas firms affects housing collateral values, thereby impacting the mortgage market.

Multivariate Statistical and Hydrochemical Analysis of Drinking Water Resources in Northern Cameroon Watersheds

Watershed pollution by natural and anthropogenic activities remains a global challenge that requires careful and prompt attention. So, identifying possible pollution sources and studying the hydrochemistry of water resources would positively affect human health, especially in resource-limited communities and their economy. Water samples were collected during the rainy season in the North (R-NO) and Adamawa (R-AD) Region communities of Cameroon and assessed for physicochemical parameters using standard methods. The data were analysed using multivariate statistical and hydrochemical methods. Principal component analysis (PCA) retained seven and six principal components explaining 77.65% (R-NO) and 72.24% (R-AD) of the total variance, respectively. The drinking water sources assessed were highly, moderately, and lightly contaminated with turbidity, PO43−, Al3+, Fe2+, Mn2+, NH4+, NO3−, NO2−, and electrical conductivity (EC) from surface runoff and soil erosion sources. PCA and factor analysis (PCA/FA) revealed two main groups, distinguished by natural and anthropogenic sources, responsible for water quality variations. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) grouped sampling sites into three clusters: low, moderate, and high pollution areas in the R-NO and unpolluted, low, and moderate pollution areas in the R-AD. The order of dominant cations was Mg2+ > Ca2+ > K+ and HCO3− > Cl− > SO42− for anions. Based on Piper diagram classification, watersheds studied were predominated by the Mg-Ca-HCO3 water type in 85% (R-NO) and 79% (R-AD) of water samples. The chemical composition of shallow and deep water was dominantly controlled by the dissolution of silicates and carbonate, reverse ion exchange, and precipitation of calcite. These results reveal that diffuse pollution predominantly impacted the study sites during the rainy season, and this should be the focus of policymakers when planning and implementing measures to protect drinking water sources, human health, and reduce water treatment costs.