Local Government Policy in Handling Groundwater Pollution Due to Domestic Waste Disposal

Human activities that produce domestic waste, such as detergent liquid or other debris, are due to uncontrolled household activities. Some simple houses with building licenses do not also provide domestic waste disposal facilities, and those are only dumped in every yard of the house so that apart from bad smell, the number of flies also pollutes the surface water, which becomes murky, unhygienic, and smells. The government and local government need to make some efforts for the community, particularly in giving building licenses for housing or business buildings, to avoid the increasing groundwater pollution due to domestic waste disposal. The limit of the research problem is how the local government constructs the policy in the form of the regulation that controls groundwater pollution due to uncontrolled domestic waste disposal and how community participation minimizes activities that can pollute the groundwater. This research used descriptive analysis to describe the observed result using the normative juridical approach related to regulations that control the environment through a literature study searching for data and information that the authors compiled. The research result is expected to describe clearly and comprehensively the concept of local government policy to avoid groundwater pollution due to domestic waste disposal and the community participation to maintain the environment, especially the groundwater quality and quantity.