Caring for our water

Making a difference: Hanapi (right) officiating the opening of the Melawati River Care and Environment Centre at Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur. Looking on is deputy director, Datuk Mohd Azmi Ismail.

FOR many societies around the world, rivers are seen as the lifeblood of a community: providing food and water for its inhabitants, connecting towns and villages as well as fertilising crops in agricultural areas.

However, with the rapid development of cities and towns, many such rivers have suffered pollution — sometimes with irreversible effects.