Updates On 22nd Mar 2019

Sarawak is blessed with between 3,300 millimetres and 4,600 millimetres of rainfall annually, depending on locality. In this sense, water supply should not pose a problem, however there is still water shortage which happens every year, especially during drought.

In Sarawak’s rural areas, most people constructed their own gravity-feed water supply sourced from nearby streams or hills.

However, the water is not always sufficient to cover a village’s water needs. Water shortage becomes worse when catchment areas providing water to gravity feed systems become more and more disturbed by forest clearing, agriculture and other unsustainable human activities, and these are affecting the people dependent on them.

Water from gravity feed system is not treated, hence all the more important for the catchment to be managed well.

People would not feel comfortable using water which looks yellow or contains sediments (such as in the photo) for drinking, cooking and even for bathing.

#WorldWaterDay #WWD2019 #watershortage #cleanwater #waterconsumption #safewatersupply #watercatchment #protectwatersouces #gravityfedwatersupply #Water4all #Connect2Earth #ruralarea #Sarawak #leavingnoonebehind

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