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I must admit that me never heard about the Council for Water and Green Technology Professionals or PROATEK before, not until the statement made by their secretary-general, Ir Mohmad Asari Daud in NST, November last month. A new NGO I presume.
Anyway Portal Airkita.my also fully agree with him, as our Portal(www.airkita.my) also advocated the water awareness esp. from science stand points, so that the people can comprehend better hence in better position to received and digest any messages or information about the very subjects as well as the issue related to Climate Change.
We also in completed agreement that “our country was too dependent on surface water, which made Malaysia more susceptible to a crisis whenever drought occurred”. We relied on as much as 98% percents of surface water(rivers, lake and ponds) and it’s by all mean ways too much and a bit risky with the regard of the changing climate and their unpredictable weather that follow. Ones must aware that there’s a fine line between the climate and weather and it’s not the same thing.
We should utilized all of our national resources prudently and that of course including the ground water. If we extract it properly and complies with every procedure and rules for sustainability know to us, then there’s nothing to worries really.
No need to fear for what ever bad perception promoted by the scare monger and certain quarters that don’t even seem to fully understood the very subject at hand. Such a joke that some claim as an experts in the area and yet produced half bake arguments that not really complies even with the basic logic left alone any reasonable man and woman with a solid science background. Geology is by all mean not a difficult subject to learn and it’s far from rocket science so to speak.
Therefore I believe our honourable minister as a master of the law, has tackles the toughest and complex legal matters before will not easily dupe and fall into fallacies.
Dear Ahmad,
Does the argument includes, ‘if you do not abstract groundwater it will cause flood’. This was given by so called expert from a company who argued that the EIA approval was well and good for a huge groundwater project as a last attempt of usage of knowledge. It was a long meeting where the expert fail to uphold his company’s project. Be litteling factual concerns does not help and it prevails many hidden agendas. Neither does using South Korea, Europe and US as example by many (including high ranking officers). Well, this examples seems to be different from examples that we can clearly see in Jakarta, Semarang, Bangkok and Manila. Basis of an EIA study is to put up simulation to proof a project is sustainable. Unfortunately, this expert does not show anything substantial despite of having so called ‘paper qualification’.
If groundwater projects are going to be approved; the government, the industry and relevent agencies must take full resposibility. We certainly do not want court case like Bukit Antarabangsa incident where Rakyat was the only victim and they were left with no answer.
Plus ‘foreign trips’ can change many people’s stand in a jiffy. Some of ’scare mongers’ are engineers too and with sound knowledge of issues.
I’m sorry YB, i need to use the YB’s blog to clarify issues. Clear message should reach Rakyat.