iv ABSTRACT
Drinking water is the most important essential for life to consume for prevent from illness that can be transmited from water borne diseases. Today, there are a lots of way to sustain a clean drinking water using housing water filter such as carbon filter, ceramic filter, reverse osmosis, ultraviolet, and several more which is easy filter to be use everyday that fullfilled requirement of safe and clean drnking water which is no odor, no color, no chemical, and no bacteria.
The method of this research is descriptive experiment laboratory which is conducted in Larboratory Kesehatan Masyarakat Bandung. Carbon filter and ceramic filter were used and 15 samples each taken from 5 samples from Well Water, 5 samples from Tap Water, 5 samples from Refill water. The samples test for Most Probable Number (MPN) index based on Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan (PerMenKes) regulations.
Carbon filter produced results all samples are negative ( 0 MPN index). Ceramic filter, samples from tap water and refill water is negative ( 0 MPN index) but sample from well water produced positive results (with 240 MPN index).
The result from this research, according to PerMenKes regulation water filtered using carbon filter are qualified as a drinking water.Water from tap water and refill water filtered using ceramic filter also qulified to be drink but water from well water not qualified to be drink.
