Protecting Our Rivers

The Quintuple Helix Community encourages local communities to take ownership of river protection by establishing initiatives such as community gardens, tree-planting projects and others. By engaging local communities in the National River Trail, we can work together to ensure rivers remain healthy and sustainable for future generations to join and support the national river trail and river care programmes.

Written and Prepared by:

Former Deputy DG1 of DID, VP of Malaysian Stormwater Organisation, Executive Committee Member of MANCID, Malaysian National Committee on Large Dams, MyWP and Committee Member of WRTD IEM.

The Corporate Social Responsibility programme was conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment & Climate Change (NRECC), Department of Irrigation & Drainage (DID), Majlis Pengurusan Komuniti Kampung Dato’ Abu Bakar Baginda, Friends of Langat River, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysian National Committee on Large Dams (MYCOLD) as well as other government and private agencies.

This programme is part of the National River Trail project by DID to build river trails spanning some 10,000km along rivers, ponds and other water bodies throughout the country by 2030 and is part of efforts to address socio-environmental challenges. Sg. Air Hitam is part of the Sg. Langat River Basin and flows through Kg. Datuk Abu Bakar Baginda.

Acknowledgement