Enhancing community awareness of tackling river pollution
MIRI: Community awareness and its members’ involvement in river clean-up activities are crucial to tackle river pollution issues. “Direct dumping of solid waste into rivers should be prohibited and more awareness campaign should be held to elevate community awareness in order to control polluting activities,” said state Minister of Transport Datuk Seri Lee Kim Shin […]
Villagers want river protected for spawning fish
BARAM: The people of Long Terawan are hoping that the nearby Likau Mayoh River would be gazetted as a protected area for the spawning of tapah fish. On their behalf, Councillor Garry Hassim Wan said the spawning of tapah fish takes place in the river every year. “We need conservation experts for this. Who knows, […]
SMC aims to end river litter
SIBU: The Sibu Municipal Council (SMC) will implement several measures to put an end to river litter. These include working closely with the Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) and Sarawak Rivers Board (SRB) to disseminate information on the importance of river cleanliness. The council will also continue to be actively involved in carrying out gotong-royong […]
Biogas from sago waste
MUKAH: Sarawak could be in the history books for being the first in the world to produce biogas from sago waste. It all started with how to solve river pollution here arising from the disposal of sago waste by sago factories when Craun Research Sdn Bhd (Craun) made an unexpected breakthrough and came up with […]
