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Message from MNS on World Day for Water- Everyone Lives Downstream Theme

      Even though the water cycle is a continuous process, increasing human activity has made drinkable freshwater a finite resource. Recent events such as the water crisis and the proposed construction of the Sungai Selangor Dam are manifestations of the urgent need to manage water as a precious and finite resource.
      The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) highlights this urgent need to address water resource management, integrated river and river basin management throughout the nation. In particular the following issues must be accorded a higher priority:
  1. Water demand must be moderated through a comprehensive series of measures including education, planning, incentive for water saving devices, pricing regime for consumption, incentives to industrial users to reduce consumption and wastage.
  2. Water supply must be more efficiently managed through rigorous protection of water catchment areas, a sustained urgent programme to minimize leakage, theft and strict enforcement of river pollution control measures.
  3. Comprehensive planning to promote sustainable growth in river basins and redistribution of growth to relieve demand in high growth areas.

      MNS welcomes the establishment of the National Water Council and urges the Council to take a leading role in water resource management for the nation.
      MNS is playing its part in addressing this urgent need through its public awareness programmes and Environmental Education modules, which the Society conducts regularly. Hopefully, through these programs, everyone in every level of the Malaysian society will put in an effort to conserve drinkable freshwater for the future.

Dato' Dr Salleh Mohd Nor
Letters to the Editor, Kuala Lumpur, 22 March 1999


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Created on 26th April 1999.