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20 February 2022. Today I joined a webinar called The Practicality Of Water Harvesting Across Urban-Rural Continuum by Ir. Marini Mohamad Ideris from Water Resources And Climate Change Research Centre, National Water Research Institute Of Malaysia (NAHRIM). The seminar was brought by SSEAYP Roundtable Program (SRPro) 2022 in conjunction with Ministry Youth And Sports Malaysia and SSEAYP International Malaysia.
There are a few topics that were highlighted in the session. Firstly, it was on the water security, and SDG, where the crucial measurement to make the water security on the ground were the quality, quantity, affordability, and equity. Next are indicators of water security risks such as floods and how climate change can affect water security, and how to improve water security. All of this is related to SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation.
Next was the overview of water conditions in Malaysia, where the issues were highlighted on the water supply impacted by the drought/flood, some insights on the water crisis in 1998 and 2016. Last year, we would say the water crisis was also bad. In August/September, fenomena kepala air in Kedah, and in December 2021, the a heavy flood in a few states of Malaysia. Water crisis not only occurs when disasters happen, but there’s also water crisis when it involves pollution, heavy metal, and so on.
Next was the interconnection of water security; resources & supply, where the talk highlights the demand of consumption from every industry. Water demand is expected to increase in all sectors of production. However, there have been some issues and challenges to the water resources. Thus, to address the issues, there is the solution to alternative water resources & storage.
The alternative water resources such as harvesting practicality can be divided into three; potable, industrial and domestic—for example, rainwater harvesting project.
Besides, to treat water quality, there is some alternative by using treatment techniques such as NAHRIM Biosorbent (N-BIOS) to ensure it is safe for consumption.
The last one was the potential storage & protection. The speaker highlighted the implementation of aquifer storage & recovery (ASR), the underground flood protection storage/tank such as Kasukabe Underground Flood Protection Tank, and SMART Tunnel, the flood diversion tunnel. To conclude, the sharing session was excellent, and thank you so much, Ir. Marini for your time.
