{"id":1240,"date":"2013-01-30T23:13:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2013-01-30T23:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T15:13:37","slug":"adopt-a-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Adopt a waterfall!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago I visited the Sg Liam waterfall, near Ulu Yam with my friends Joe and Rahim. I published a report about this fall titled Most polluted waterfall in Malaysia!<\/a> Here is a picture of what we found:<\/p>\n

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At that time Joe was organising\u00a0 waterfall cleaning operations with her group of Waterfall Survivors. These Save Our Waterfalls projects<\/a> were a success, but it was disappointing that after a few months, the rubbish was there again. How to ensure that a waterfall after cleaning, remains clean? Of course the best solution would be to educate the visitors that they should take their rubbish home, but will that ever happen?<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago I was back at Sg Liam, invited by friends who are active in a recently established NGO, the Waterfall Lovers Association of Selangor<\/a> The occasion was the launch of a Sustainable Waterfall Adoption<\/span> program, where a Company, a School, a Kampong, etc adopt a waterfall, regularly check the cleanliness, take action when needed, etc.<\/p>\n

The event was well organised, hundreds of school children took part in the cleaning, there were speeches, there was food. Let’s hope the program will be a success!<\/p>\n

Here is a pictorial report.<\/p>\n\n\t\t