Dada Ayokunle Christopher, Asmat Ahmad, Gires Usup, Heng Lee Yook, Deborah Bandele Oluwaseun
School of Biosciences & Biotechnology, Faculty of Science & Tecnology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.
Glob J Health Sci. 2012 Apr 28;4(3):126-38. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v4n3p126.
Despite the growing demand of tourism in Malaysia, there are no resolute efforts to develop beaches as tourist destinations. With no incentives to monitor public beaches or to use them in a sustainable manner, they might eventually degenerate in quality as a result of influx of pollutants. This calls for concerted action plans with a view to promoting their sustainable use. The success of such plans is inevitably anchored on the availability of robust quality monitoring schemes. Although significant efforts have been channelled to collation and public disclosure of bacteriological quality data of rivers, beach water monitoring appears left out. This partly explains the dearth of published information related to beach water quality data. As part of an on-going nation-wide surveillance study on the bacteriological quality of recreational beaches, this paper draws on a situation analysis with a view to proffering recommendations that could be adapted for ensuring better beach water quality in Malaysia.
尽管马来西亚的旅游业需求不断增长，但在将海滩开发为旅游目的地方面却没有坚定的努力。由于缺乏监测公共海滩或可持续利用海滩的激励措施，随着污染物的涌入，海滩质量最终可能会退化。这就需要制定协调一致的行动计划，以促进海滩的可持续利用。此类计划的成功不可避免地取决于强有力的质量监测方案的可用性。尽管已投入大量精力对河流的细菌学质量数据进行整理和公开披露，但海滩水质监测似乎被忽视了。这在一定程度上解释了与海滩水质数据相关的已发表信息为何匮乏。作为正在进行的全国性休闲海滩细菌学质量监测研究的一部分，本文通过态势分析，旨在提出可用于确保马来西亚海滩水质更佳的建议。
