VOLUNTEERS, including residents of Rumah Pangsa Taman Keramat, yesterday joined in a campaign called ‘Love My Drain’ to clean up drains leading to the Klang River. The clean-up was organised by the Global Environment Centre (GEC) and the residents’ association, supported by the Irrigation and Drainage Department (DID), Ampang Jaya Municipal Council and Yayasan Modal…
THE third year of a green initiative in conjunction with the Sungai Pinang River Care Project sees a resource centre for environment and green living at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Methodist Girls, Penang. Launched by HSCB Bank Malaysia, the resource centre boasts key elements learnt through the Sg Pinang River Care project displayed with posters, reading…
AMONG the 10 schools and six residential areas that took part in the River Care programme on river preservation, the team from Penang Methodist Girls’ School showed they were most committed. The students’ hard work and commitment to raise awareness and to educate the public on the protection of water resources within the Sungai Pinang…
The ROL-POP (River of Life — Public Outreach Programme) River Carnival will be held at the SMK Taman Melawati school field , here, on Sunday. The event is organised by the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia, Environment and Natural Resources Ministry and Federal Territories Ministry in conjunction with World Rivers Day 2013. Event partners…
THREE hundred volunteers recently sweated it out to clean a source of the Klang River, located just below the Klang Gates dam. The clean-up was organised by the Irrigation and Drainage Department (DID), Global Environment Centre (GEC), Ampang Jaya Municipal Council, Lanskap Malaysia, Yayasan Modal Insan Harta, GAB Foundation and the Selangor Environment Department. The…
The importance of keeping rivers clean is seldom highlighted. Throughout the whole of last year, Malaysia has been talking about clean rivers, and more so after the multi-billion ringgit River of Life (RoL) project was launched two years ago. RoL is a Federal initiative to improve the water quality of the Klang River from something…
IPOH: ONGOING efforts to rehabilitate Sungai Kinta has received a significant boost as Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the GAB Foundation and Global Environment Centre (GEC). The memorandum will see 50 Utar students in various fields play an active role in the three-year Water (Working Actively Through…
Coverage in China Press, Perak edition
Coverage in SinChew paper.
Coverage for Water Project ceremony in Perak.