Do you know that our picnic-rivers are under threat? If you have enjoyed picnics by the river with family and friends, you may want to act NOW and conserve our watery wonders from dirty and stinky rubbish...in fact, the extent of pollution and deterioration of nature is beyond imagination.Today, much of our natural beauty have perished at the hands of mankind. As layman,we regret having to witness tremendously horrifying destruction of Mother Nature, and continuous slaughter of our eco-system. Deliberating on these selfish actions is exasperating, and may go beyond our jurisdictions. So, let's identify opportunities to conserve nature at our own backyard, in our neighbourhood or some place where we can perform our responsibility as a concerned citizen.
At UNITEN, undergraduates are involved in diversed community service, and the most recent is National River Clean-up project in collaboration with KAGUM. A total of 87 staff and undergraduates joined the nation's call for conservation of our picnic-rivers. 4 KAGUM members provided the team with the necessary groundrules for river clean-up and joined us in clearing rubbish at the picnic site. Some rubbish are simply ridiculous; for example, who would need a cellphone charger by the river? Indeed we found 'just that' during our national river clean-up project on 10th July 2011.
Finally, we jumped into the river and connected with nature in ultimate bliss!! We pray may our picnic rivers remain this beautiful forever...Our volunteers collected a total of 618 kilos of rubbish from the site. In fact, several other voluntary groups have collected even heavier garbage... and this makes us wonder about the mentality of these litterbugs and selfish picnickers.
It's time to act and volunteer for river clean-up. For those who have participated in such activities, CONGRATULATIONS! The rivers are crying for our help! So, please share your experience with our readers in this blogosphere about your experience as a volunteer for any national river clean-up activtiy, and let's motivate others too.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 228 of 228What comes to our mind when we say the word river??.Of course water.Water is something that very important for a human being because without water no one can survive.It should be noted that 70% of our body is made of water which is more than half.When we consider water plays an important role in our lives,we should protect it and preserve it so that our nature is not destroyed.In this world,the main source of water comes from the rivers and seas.These days human beings are becoming so irresponsible where they are willing to destroy the beauty of the nature.We should avoid this from happening.Most of the rivers in our country are being destroyed by our irresponsibe people out there due to their negative activities.When our river is not clean,it doesnt only affect us but also the other species.Thus,causing imbalance in ecosystem.We as an independent and responsible human being need to be protective and concerned about the importance of river.I think we should stand together and support the National River Clean Up.....it will help us to lead a better and wonderful life in the future.God has gifted us with such a wonderful nature and we should know how to protect it,otherwise it would just be a piece of waste matter.So i would like to conclude that we should appreciate the natural resources that God has created for us and we should not destroy it for our personal use or benefits.Protect&Preserve concept would be better so we wont commit such a stupid act in the future.Clean and keep our rivers fresh as always.
Thank you and have a good day!!
Actually I have experienced this national river clean-up activity once. But it is the first and the last time. But from this activity, I realise that nowadays many rivers have been polluted. Of course it is done by human. I admit that I am one of them who have been causes to this pollution. But after done that activity, I realise that we have to take care of our river. If not, maybe in future, we did not have a valuable thing that we can be proud of. It is still not too late for us to realise about this. Better be late than never. For me, this kind of activities is one of the greatest activities that should done continously from time to time. This is because from this activity we can open up the eyes of the public on the importance of the clean river, so that we have nothing to regret in future. This is actually a responsibility for each individual to take care of our nature. If it is not ours responsibility, who else?
When I heard the word river, the first thing that will come to my thought is a place that has a beautiful scenery with a clean water n cool breez. But unfortunately nowadays people keep polluting the river with rubbish such as food packs and water bottles that were brought by them. These rubbish definitely will not just cause the area to be dirty, but it will also cause problems to our daily life as more and more water is polluted everyday. This is because we consume water everyday for our daily activities such as bathing, washing dishes and clothes and drinking. As for that, if more water is polluted everyday, we will be left with a limited supply of clean water to do those activities. It is undeniable that we have the technology to clean polluted water these days but that will cause high price each time the cleaning process is going on when actually we can cut the cost by more than three quarter by just maintaining the river clean and not keep polluting it day by day. There are several ways to prevent this river pollution from getting more servere. Firstly we can start with organizing the "Keep The River Clean" campaign. We can also collect volunteers and bring them to any polluted river and clean it. Other than that we can also organize talks to the public about the importance of water to our daily lives. With this we can open their eyes so that they realize about it and thus start taking moves on keeping the river clean. In a nutshell, water is very important to us and we need to ensure it is kept clean always.
River is a water which flowing through the valley of the catchment areas in the highlands to the lowlands and eventually into lakes and seas. we should really take a very good care of our river. maybe its seems not very important for us take care about the river because we don't not really aware about its benefits to us. river have been thousand years benefits us. its provide waters and many protein sources. The role of the river can also be seen when the river used as a place of recreation and tourism. This is because the river has an interesting landscape. For example, Endau-Rompin National located in the watershed and river Endau Rompin river was used as a recreational area that makes tourist attractions. Various activities can be carried out in the region such as kayaking, jungle tracking, fishing and picnicking. In addition, the river used to generate hydroelectricity by building dams to supply energy to the people. Dam built also potentially be an attractive tourist area. Directly and indirectly, the tourism sector will grow rapidly. So that in my opinion, we should maintain the cleanliness of the river so that the river could be used as tourist attractions besides we could preserved it for future generations to sustain life on this earth.
by : AQMAL IKHWAN BIN ABDULLAH (AM88120)
River is one of the gifted sources by our mother nature to mankind.As a matter of fact,every single living thing needs water to perform their aerobic or anaerobic processes. However,due to the rapid advancement in technology development, mankind had changed the surroundings of river, such as to ecotourism centers and hydroelectric generators.As a result,this varied the varsity of river and progresses mankind's level indirectly but also gives negative impact to the river, where rubbish and trash has became the by-products due to our fast movement.Hence,what I would like to state here is that by joining forces with the nature-care-organizations,we too can play a massively crucial role in sustaining and preserving our rivers.We all adhere that ‘what we do is what we get’,therefore,by polluting the rivers,we are also blindly polluting our major source of water. Moreover,water is a very essential aspect in our life.My question here is, will you ever drink water from a polluted source ?.In a nutshell,I would like to conclude that the mutual interaction between the humans and the river is significantly vital in order for our next generations to enjoy the beauty of mother nature and Its gifts to us as well as to lead a healthier life.Stop pollution, protect our mother of nature.
The Dead Crow! This beautiful poem was written by our very own A. Samad Said. This poem tells us about pollution and how people are suffering in this world. Even a tough bird like the crow could not stand in this polluted world. Pollution is majorly caused by human activities and river is one of the polluted areas in our country. Once upon a time, river was the source of water and was used to cook and carry out daily lives. But now river is like a drain. Fishes turned into garbage and that is how I can define a river in this modern era. I myself do not have an opportunity to take part in any of river clean-up activities. But in my part I am playing my role to keep the river clean and help the world to be safe from pollution. In future, I would love to take part in river clean-up activities and it is always better to keep the river clean for the future generation. Earth Hour is conducted every year, likewise we have to conduct the river clean-up activity annually and keep our river clean.
Ultraman Zero,
Hello Pn.Zue,
Well,regarding to the event organized by UNITEN and KAGUM.A, its a nice act of good deeds that open the eyes of the youths,especially in me. I couldnt think only abt the river, but also the other Eco-system issues that speculating around the world. Everything is possible.We only need unity among us and good leadership that would open the heart of every mankind.With this, the eco-system can be preserve in matter of time. No doubts,the world we live in would be a better place.
Nur Aslam Ali said.....
I don’t have any experience about National River Clean-Up but i think that river clean-up is important because the river is the source of our water for bathing, drinking and every day life we need water to survive. So, these campaign are very good to encourage youth and students about meaning of the river and educate them to become citizens concerned about the environment. I don’t know why they like to throw garbage into the river without feeling guilty of what they are doing. They were supposed to change and protect the environment properly. Therefore, we need to educate young people take care of our rivers.
Rivers have been used as a source of water, for food, for transport, as a defensive barrier and as a source of power to drive machinery. For thousands of years rivers have been used for navigation. A river is defined as any natural stream of water that flows in a channel. The source of a river may be a lake, a spring, or a collection of small streams, known as headwaters. As a human being, why people want to destroy it or never appreciate it? people always complain about the nature like why this day the weather getting hot. People should start recycling or do anything ways to save our river. for example 1. Instead of using the air conditioning when it gets hot, turn on the fan. It will only take about an hour to cool down your house, saving you money and water. 19. Take a shower instead of a bath. Baths use up to 70 gallons of water while showers can use as little as 10-25.
as Dr Joy said. "If you want to clean up a river you have to start at the top. We can save it, it's just getting it to a state where it can sustain fish life again." So let’s save our mother nature.
clean up activity like this is very noble work,congratulation to who participated.god created this universe not to be destroyed but to take benefit from it and take care of it together like natural enviroment around us.i hope some selfish people will open their eye to think and see their action toward enviroment how it effect the nature.we must together protect our nature not only just by certain people but all of us must take part to care about it.
River is one of the biggest gifts from Allah S.W.T to the mankind and to the nature. It is the most previous thing that helps people and the nature to gain water. For example, if there is any human camping trip in the jungle, of course they need water to clean the plates, to cook, and many things.
River also important for an animals to drink water.
I have joined the activities about 3 years ago. It is "Out-campus camp". We've been in the forest for 4 days. And of course, our camping site is near the river. It is such an exciting experience ever in my life. I love camping.
Well thats all from me. If there is any activities made by UNITEN to made a camping trip to the rivers, I would like to join =)))))))
-Ann
River is the source of life that has been used for drinking, washing, habitat for animals and to development of large scale energy source. . Imagine this world now without water. Do you think we will survive it? River plays a very important part in our daily life so we have to make sure that our river will stay clean to get us a better life. I realized about the fact technology has been implanted into people's blood. In order to get higher with technology doesn’t mean we can totally ignore the earth. I think National River Clean-up project is a brilliant idea to start protects this important source. It’s our responsibility to take care of it. So now is the best time for us to start cleaning our river. It’s not too late as a proverb goes “It’s better late than never”.
Truly speaking I had never gotten an opportunity to enroll myself in a river clean up activity. I would like to serve the environment if I am given the chance to join such a activity. As we all know rivers are essential asset to us human beings as rivers are the main source of water which is our life source because it makes 70 percent of our body. Thus it is our duty as human being to preserve the our clean water supply to ensure our survival. Many people now days neglect their duty to take good care of our rivers. In their minds they can sustain a good and healthy life by having water filters or latest water purifying systems installed in their houses. The thing is, that many people don’t consider that is the water being used to make their coffee or drinks in restaurants or stalls are actually treated water? So can we say that the water that we are consuming everyday is clean? Rivers which are infected or dirty will give a huge impact on the environment by killing the aquatic life and also the animals that drink the water from the same stream. The effect is not obvious at a small scale but we should not wait for it to become a big scale. Thus everyone should open their eyes and realize that we should take action to keep our rivers clean so that not just our environment will be clean but we are also taking a step to ensure our own health.
During the technology era, humans are struggle to success in life without thinking pro and cons of their action .It is dangerous for the river,some of the factory just take it easy of their waste with flowing their toxic into the river. One of the the best university ,UNITEN conducted a program to help the river to breath through National River Clean up.
There a many advantages we can take from this program for our future.what the benefit of this program?for sure by doing this program we can maintain their beauty of nature . Collecting the rubbish and provide the plastic bag are helpful for the river to keep flowing.Furthermore , water is most important thing for the mankind .human contain one third of water in their body.we can get fresh water from the river if we keep doing this program every month .
Although ,what you give you get back.this program will give the positive effect to the human.we are using a water everyday, no river no water.Other then that,we are living with flora and fauna.they are survive with water from the river.the cycle of life will flow with smoothly without any pollution if we keep doing this program,think about it,:)
ZAIREEN (IS 094578)
GREETING DR,
Clean and plentiful water provides the foundation for prosperous communities (human). Nowadays, the changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers, and key sources (drinking water). Dirty water is the world's biggest health risk, and continues to threaten both quality of life and public health. I fully support the effort of this river clean-up idea which is done by UNITEN because it helps us to realize the important of the river. This activity should be done by everyone because it is our responsibility to protect the river from pollution in order to save them for our ourselves and future generations.
Lets get a solution to stop pollution….
Many families want to spend their leisure time with their family members to go on a picnic. But nowadays, the places to picnic mostly are contaminated. Almost 90% of the river in Malaysia has been contaminated. This is because human nature is not responsible for rampant and they ignored their surrounding area. Many effects that occur due to environmental contamination. Among them, cancer of skin, itching, coughing and so on. So, among the ways to preserve our environment is to create a collaborative between all river users. Perhaps in this way, we can reduce pollution more widespread. In addition, trained caregivers who control around the river in order to monitor the visitors who are not responsible for the pollution. In this way, we can educate visitors irresponsible, thus helping keep the river clean. In conclusion, we as humans need to care about our health and realize the importance of a clean environment, so that we are always in good condition to prevent it from happening mishap.
i dont understand,why some people didn't care about the nature? nature is one of the most beautiful things in this world.We can't live without nature,because nature is taking care of us.For example,a tree.Tree do supply an oxygen to all living things.If there is no tree left in this world,how can we live?From where we can get an oxygen to survive?That is why it we must take a good care of nature because we all living things are relying on it.
First of all, congratulations to those who have participated to protect rivers, restores damaged rivers and conserves clean water for people and nature. Millions of tons of trash end up in our rivers every year. River clean-ups provide a fantastic way to connect citizens to their local river. Clean-up rivers are an excellent way to educate volunteers on other problems your river is facing. The cleaning impact that surrounds a clean river will provide the community with increased tourism, affecting both our national’s economy and well-being. Finally, activities such as clean-up rivers should be held more often with more involvements.
National River Clean Up is one of activity that can safe and keep the river clean. As we know, water is one of the important things for human.Human need water to live. But, do you know what is the main water source we can have? The main source is river. But, as we can see, we can found a lot of rubbish in the river. I have experience conduct a program named National Eco-Hydrology and River Clean Up. The main activity from this program is to clean the river and find out the water quality of the river. Is the river clean? Is it safe to use or drink? . After do all the activities, we have found many rubbish have thrown by unresponsible people. Pampers, polistrine, newspaper and many more are the rubbish we found. That make me relize that people nowadays dont know and alert the important of river. Many animal live at the river, For example, fish, river shrimp and many more. There have many species live in the river. Can you imagine what will happern to this animal if river became polluted? How can they survive? They might die cause of river pollution. Other effect of river pollution is air pollution. What can I related here is rubbish can produce bad smell and will effect people health. It very important to keep our river clean and safe. Safe your healthy life by safe the river.
Thank you. :)
Written by,
Farha Ieza Azmi
Salam Mdm Zue::
National River Clean up:: For me I wonder why some people don't appreciate the treasure that has been given to them by Nature. and this is a Nature of God and must be preserved in all respects.
We must educate them about the matters of the clean environment.
If youre looking for a hands-on way to help protect the rivers you love, participating in a cleanup is a great way to show your commitment to a clean and healthy environment.A clean, beautiful, safe river often adds to a city's property values, leads to increased tourism and revenue from those who come to take advantage of the river, and a better overall quality of life for peoples. "Save The Rivers"
Nur Syahirah Bt Ab Rahman
Accordingly, God warned through His word, which means: Was seen damage on land and sea because of what the hands of men, that He may make them taste a part of the bad deeds that they have done so that they are converted. (al-Rum: 41)
According to quran verses above,we know that human will always do same damages to environment due to their bad desires possesing them.They actually forgot what they should do at this world,they run from truth just for thir own sake.
This is the habits of devils.
So as human that aware about out mission and visions living in this world should do what He asked us.Preserve the nature is one of that
i hope that after this,we can organized more activities to encourage people to gain awareness from this such benefit activities..
Salam Mdm Zue::
National River Clean up:: For me I wonder why some people don't appreciate the treasure that has been given to them by Nature. and this is a Nature of God and must be preserved in all respects.
We must educate them about the matters of the clean environment.
Well I have only done this once, that's like 8 years ago during secondary school.
We students were forced to gotong royong. So we gathered at school, and walked like 15 min to a big river nearby.
It smells like crap. We were given long poles with hooks or nets to scoop and pull out all the trash.
Mostly were plastics and food & drinks packet. Well we really cleaned it up including the surrounding area. Quite a lot of trash we collected, then dump them into the local municipality garbage truck.
That's all. Nothing fun actually.
SALAM DR.ZUE,
The nature is essential to human being and our country.Most beautiful nature will be encourage tourism activities and attract people from anywhere.
Nature will relief tension to our life.So,we must appreciate them and put the mutual responsibility to take care our nature.Therefore,like this activity must be continuous to preserve nature.
Actually the human does not appreciate that Allah give to them.Based on Al-Qur'an,we cannot do the destruction anywhere on earth.We must keep the nature because as human need nature to live and make our life better.Allah created nature so that the mankind safe from any disaster.
This is a very good effort .We need to held more programme like this. By protecting and restoring rivers, we are protecting clean drinking water, creating jobs and recreation opportunities that benefit our economy.And of course, revitalizing our natural heritage for future generations.Kudos to everyone of you.
Nur Syahidah Binti Sobri
Assalamualaikum w.b.t,
This kind of activity should be done at least once in a year. Most of us like to spend our time by having a picnic, watching a spectacular and tranquillity scenery of nature which is good. But the way we do it should be improvised. We did not realize while having a chit chat with our friend/ family in the river, we had thrown a small rubbish like bread plastic cover, sweet cover and etc into the river. Yes for us, it is just a plastic cover.i ts just a small thing which could not harm nature.but try to think about it again. What if almost everyone do a same thing- throwing a plastic cover? For sure the water will get polluted. So, the most important thing is try to remind ourselves that nature is just like us, the human being which should be taken care.
As we are participating in destroying the nature we also have to participate in cleaning the rubbishes that we trowed before and re-borning of all the trees that we cut off
I never had a chance to participate in any of these kind of events and the main reason is because i never go after to find one...the why I don't know but i will try my best from now on....
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