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National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) Institutions and Legislations • Numerous institutions in the public, corporate sector and NGOs associated with water. • reflect growing awareness and sensitivities in the water sectors, • reflect the difficulties in governing, holistically in an integrated manner • Federal Constitution (revised 1998) in general, land and water are under the state jurisdiction • Origin from pre-independence • 50 years on, new information and new priorities emerged • A plethora of water and environmental laws • Some may be obsolete and redundant and need to be revised • Some may be appropriate but are not provided with sufficient enforcement capabilities. • No overarching legal framework, accept the Federal Constitution • Countries with overarching legal framework • Japan, South Africa, Brazil and the EU • Philippine, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam
National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) Awareness, Advocacy and Capacity Building • Sensitive environmental and water issues requires strong support from the public • personal involvement of all, as issues covers essentially every inch of the country • Release of pollutants into water bodies involved housewives, farmers, hawkers, residents as well as commercial and industry owners • Clearance of forested areas and areas for development aggravate siltations of rivers • Disposal of plastics & other solids into rivers can throttle water ways and create floods • Construction of impermeable paved areas, roads, home lawns and street curbs, increases overland flow rapidly into drains and river channels • Population in cities and towns have increase exponentially. • The Klang river basin; a population of about 80,000 people at the beginning 20thCentury to the current 4 million. • Pollutant discharge not only from households, but from industries and transport systems which were almost non-existence in the early 20h century. • Sporadic campaigns on love our rivers, drains, pollution, plants, forests, environments, rainfall harvesting etc • Can it be packaged to provide cohesiveness and easy understanding • The need for capacity building in the various related fields • The technical and social expertise need to be developed to a minimal critical mass, to handle the issues
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