~SaVE NaTuRe!!!~

Last weekend, Environmental Section had managed a trip to Tasek Bera located in Pahang Darul Makmur....The objective of this trip is to do water sampling and exposed student closer to nature.. the panorama is scenic as the place surrounded by trees and beautiful lake..On second day of the trip, we do water sampling in three point source that are upper, middle and down streams..Certain analysis been done that were Heavy Metals Detection, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), turbidity,and conductivity of the water stream.. The data analysis is quite shocked as the quality of water at upper stream is lower than down stream... The pH of water is acidic and the dissolve oxygen (DO) level is low..All of the quality of water is affected by the activities of native people nearby that clear up the area to planting rubber tree in large area without care for the environment. Effects from the activities is the lake become shallow as from records, the lake 20 years ago is about 20 m depth but now only 10 to 15 meters.



Beside that, the effect also can be seen as 'rasau' trees are grown in large amount showed nitrification process happened as in some place, there were only one boat can pass trough the 'rasau' trees...




As a conclusion, awareness about environmental issue need to be improve among Malaysians in order to protect nature resources for our next generation and law among native people need to strictly stated such as the limit to open new land for cultivation...