The first local project by the Force of Nature (FON) Aid Foundation is set to be completed next year. The foundation had initiated a community-based river auditing programme in Pagoh, Johor, in October. It had awarded a grant of RM198,000 to the Global Environment Centre to introduce a system for river auditing and mapping and…
GETTING everyone involved in recycling may not be a simple task but Bukit Lanjan assemblyman Yong Dai Ying gamely rose to the challenge by organising the Smart Ranger Recycling Festival recently. The event, organised with the Global Environment Centre, saw students from five schools and Kampung Kayu Ara residents join in the cause. They cam…
TO promote awareness on recycling and saving resources, Petaling Jaya Recycling Expo 2007 will be back again this year with new activities to educate the public. The event organised by the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) will be held over three days from Nov 3. NGOs, colleges and residents associations also support it. This time,…
THE section of Sungai Penchala flowing through Section 19, Petaling Jaya, will be upgraded by the end of the month as part of a redemptive measure under the government’s river adoption policy. According to Damansara Utama assemblyman Datuk Lim Choon Kin, Sungai Penchala, which begins at Bukit Kiara in Taman Tun Dr Ismail and ends…
Thirty residents of Kampung Kayu Ara were recently given a three-hour crash course in solid waste and river management in an effort to ensure that they maintained the cleanliness of Sungai Kayu Ara. KAMPUNG Kayu Ara residents are meeting the challenge of ensuring that Sungai Kayu Ara remains clean under the Community Participa-tion in Waste…
A Campaign to clean up Sungai Kayu Ara in Bukit Lanjan has begun. In three months, the river is expected to be a model of a clean river to all Malaysians. The Sungai Kayu Ara project, which will rope in participation from the local community, is an initiative by Bukit Lanjan State Assemblyman Yong Dai…
Looking smart in white T-shirts and blue caps, 52 teachers were up early at Berapit, Bukit Mertajam. Carrying files, buckets, test kits and nets, they were eager to start their day. The teachers, participants of a River Ranger Trainers Training Workshop, were on a field assignment to begin river mapping near a river source at…
The river here is just a kilometre from its source, but the water is already muddy and the natural banks eroded. This artificial channel may be neat, but it deprives the stream of its natural filteing function. It speeds up the flow of water, causing rapid erosion of the banks. Once it leaves the park,…
GEORGE TOWN: Future hikes in the water tariff will be accompanied by punitive measures to discourage wastage. Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, who said this yesterday, however made it clear that there was no plan to raise water charges at present. “But in the event it happens, we will,…
This was revealed to school children at a workshop on Water Conservation conducted by the Global Environment Centre (GEC) and the Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association of Malaysian Consumers Associations (Fomca) in SMK (P) Sri Aman in Petaling Jaya recently in conjunction with the National Water Conservation Campaign. Speaking to the students on the importance…