EFINITY SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
PROBLEMS & PLIGHT
The Orang Asli are the poorest communities in Malaysia with the lowest education and economy status. Due to their poor nutrition diet, poor hygienic practices, their average life expectancy is only 54 years old.
One of the main issue that is threatening the survival of these indigenous people is the lack of clean drinking water. In recent years, their water sources had been badly polluted by logging and mining activities.
THEIR WATER SOURCE
RAIN HARVEST
RIVERS / STREAMS
WELLS / PONDS
POLLUTIONS & POLLUTANTS
LOGGING / MINING
INDUSTRIAL WASTE / TOXIC MATTER / HEAVY METALS
ILLEGAL DUMPING / AGRICULTURE / LIVESTOCK FARMING / FLOOD / EROSION
PREMATURED DEATHS & SUFFERING
STOP PRESS !
The STAR ~ Date: 6th April 2019
GERIK: In recent years, villagers liÂÂving near Sungai Rui here have stopÂÂped swimming in the murky river.
But it was very different just some 10 years back when the water was clear, clean, and fish could be seen swimming in it.
Residents claimed that due to tin mining activities upstream, hundreds of dead fish would be found floating on the river when it rained heavily in the past few years.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/04/06/villagers-blame-tin-mining-activities/#Eule0TZfqjQqYtxu.99
