Waste management of local government organizations Health Regional 9

Abstract

The objective of this cross-sectional survey research was to investigate the sewage management situation and to compare the sewage management of municipalities and Subdistrict Administrative Organizations (SAOs) in Health Area 9. 305 samples divided into 93 municipalities and 212 Subdistrict Administrative Organizations. Data were collected by using an online questionnaire which the researcher further adjusted from the Department of Health with convenience sampling method. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze general data. The t-test and chi-square test were used to analyze the differences in sewage management between municipalities and Subdistrict Administrative Organizations.

           The results of the study found that the sewage management scores of the municipalities and Subdistrict Administrative Organizations were statistically significantly different (p<0.05). The municipalities had an average score for sewage management of 3.88 points, while the Subdistrict Administrative Organization had an average score for sewage management of 3.05 points. 90.30% of the municipalities have issued their ordinances to control sewage management and 91.40% of them provided the transport services. Only 2.15% of them had the sewage treatment systems. For the Subdistrict Administrative Organizations, 80.49% of them have issued the ordinances, 83.49% of them provided sewage transport services, and had a sewage treatment system with 2.83%.

           Sewage management of local government organizations tends to be improved. However, the sewage treatment plant is not sufficient, there is still illegal dumping of sewage in those area of municipality and Subdistrict Administrative Organizations. Therefore, the local administrative organizations did not have the ordinances. They should issue their laws and regulations to control and supervise sewage management and also enforce effective compliance with local ordinances. Beside this, they should support the budget for the construction of sewage treatment system.