Rehabilitation Program At Penchala River

This event was held on last Saturday morning at Taman Rimba Kiara, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail Kuala Lumpur. This charity and awareness program was organized by Global Environment Centre (GEC), CIMB Investment Bank and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL).

The participants for this event were from GEC, DBKL, CIMB Investment Bank and Orphans. I represent my Department as special guest as a witness for this program. This 'Love Our Rivers' program has been done by GEC for years at the same place. The upstream (starting point) of Penchala River is the only one 'cleanness' river in Kuala Lumpur. I drank the water before, and it's so clean and refreshing.

The main purpose for this program is to create awareness and eduction knowledge to children and adults how important the rivers as our main water source for our daily needs. The program contains how to rehabilitate the river by cleaning, planting wetland pants and bio monitoring education.

Opening speech by YB Ooi, adviser of DBKL.

Dr. Kali from GEC giving a short briefing to participants.

Collecting rubbish in the river by CIMB staffs.

Planting 'Cat Tail', one of wetland's plant by orphan.

For your information, wetland plants help to filter and treat polluted water. Many people don't know about it, they thought is a bushes then cut it off.

Digging hole to plant 'Cat Tail' by CIMB staffs.

Planting the 'Cat Tail' by DBKL staffs.

Carrying rocks and sands to make drop structural.

Team work.

Completion of work.

'Drop Structural' (with stones/rocks) is to slower down the river water flow. It will reduce the erosion of river banks and prevent the wetland's plants washing off by strong water flow.

Bio monitoring education to orphans.

Bio monitoring is to monitor the water quality of a river by using living creatures as an indicator. This method is very effective and without using any chemical test on the water. Picture above shows the test of oxygen content in the water. The parameters to determine the water quality status are Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Suspended Solid (SS), Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), pH Level, Conductivity, Minerals and Chemicals content.

Many thanks to GEC for their hard work on environment concern. If every Malaysians have the mind set of taking care of our environment, I'm sure we all will live in a healthy and clean country. Please think about our next generation, we don't want to live in illness condition, we don't want to wear mask all the time.

Please Love Our Environment!!!