Water Supply System for a Rural Village in Malaysia
Abstract
The aim of this research was to design and build a water supply system for a village in rural Malaysia. Very often technologies previously developed for water supply are not known or specifically upgraded to suit a particular population (or village). This has resulted in 600 million humans still living in abject poverty. Companies can be called in to develop water supply systems but too often their profit motive will make the project inviably expensive. This project was accomplished with a very tight research grant, lots of trial and error and engineering knowledge. The village is located 103 kilometers from Kuching. The final system is a 3Ø, 4 HP pump placed on a floatable wooden barge near the river pushing water up 120m over an elevation of 9m to a Pump House located behind the Community Hall of the village. Another 3Ø, 1 HP pump is used to pump water from the 9000L holding tank to the 38 individual homes of the village. Upon achieving a supply of water, other aspects of developing the village using modern technology was worked upon. This will enable villagers to get out of the poverty trap and approach life with renewed confidence.
References
[2] Berma, M. (2003). Towards the national vision policy: Review of the New Economic Policy and New Development Policy among the bumiputera communities in Sarawak. The Bumiputera Policy: Dynamics and Dilemma.
[3] Huu, J. H. W., AbdLatif, I., & Nasir, A. M. (1999). Lead-lag relationship between housing and gross domestic product in Sarawak. In Paper presented at The International Real Estate Society Conference (Vol. 26, No. 30).
[4] Rabbani, G., Rahman, S. H., & Faulkner, L. (2013). Impacts of climatic hazards on the small wetland ecosystems (ponds): evidence from some selected areas of coastal Bangladesh. Sustainability, 5(4), 1510-1521.
[5] Curry, E. (2010). Water scarcity and the recognition of the human right to safe freshwater. Nw. UJ Int'l Hum. Rts., 9, 103.
[6] Prakash, A. V., & KUMAR, L. V. (2005). Water Quality Study on Rivers in Sarawak (Doctoral dissertation, Bachelor’s Thesis, University Malaysia Sarawak, Samarahan, Malaysia, 2005.[Google Scholar]).
[7] Ngah, I., Preston, D., & Asman, N. (2010, June). Current Planning Priorities in Rural Villages in Malaysia Learning from The New Malaysian Village Action Plans. In ISDA 2010 (pp. 9-p). Cirad-Inra-SupAgro.
[8] Jomo, K. S., & Sundaram, J. K. (2004). The new economic policy and interethnic relations in Malaysia.
[9] Ravallion, M. (2020). Ethnic inequality and poverty in Malaysia since May 1969. Part 2: Poverty. World Development, 134, 105039.
[10] Kong, Y. L., Anis-Syakira, J., Fun, W. H., Balqis-Ali, N. Z., Shakirah, M. S., & Sararaks, S. (2020). Socio-Economic Factors Related to Drinking Water Source and Sanitation in Malaysia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), 7933.
[11] Rahmat, S. N., Adnan, M. S., & Ayob, S. (2017). Water protection: Capturing the benefits and limitations of rainwater harvesting and groundwater as alternative sources.
[12] Puah, C. H., Jong, M. C., Ayob, N., & Ismail, S. (2018). The impact of tourism on the local economy in Malaysia. International Journal of Business and Management, 13(12), 151-157.
[13] Rashid, M. F., Ngah, I., & Misnan, S. H. (2019, November). Revitalizing Rural Areas in Malaysia: A Framework for Economic Revitalization. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 385, No. 1, p. 012004). IOP Publishing.
[14] Karunakaran, P. (2018). Electrical Power Simplified. AuthorHouse.
[15] Karunakaran, Prashobh; Osman, M. Shahril; Greve, Dylan; Jesse, Timothy; V. Karuppanna; Sung, Chee Cheng; Lee, Man Djun; Chioma, Augustine; Wong, Chee Chung. (2020). Water Supply for a Village in Sarawak, Malaysia. STAGE 2020: International conference on Sustainable Technology Applications for Green Energy solutions. NSS College of Engineering. Palakkad, India, 18/7/2020.
[16] Purba, J. H., Sasmita, N., Komara, L. L., & Nesimnasi, N. (2019). Comparison of seed dormancy breaking of Eusideroxylon zwageri from Bali and Kalimantan soaked with sodium nitrophenolate growth regulator. Nusantara Bioscience, 11(2).
[17] Karunakaran P. Electrical Power simplified. (2020/4/29), Amazon ASIN: B087XBNXV3. ISBN: 978-1-5462-6246-6 (sc), 978-1-5462-6247-3(e). 271 pages.
[18] Keith, C., Chen, A., Albalak, H., & Anvar, M. (2020, August). Output Improvement in High Volume Memory Fabs by Reducing Recipe Qualifications. In 2020 31st Annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC) (pp. 1-3). IEEE.
[19] Şensoy, S., Coşkun, M., Türkoğlu, N., & Çiçek, İ. (2018). Future Earth and Expected Mega Changes. Global Change and Future Earth: The Geoscience Perspective, 3, 15.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
To ensure uniformity of treatment among all contributors, other forms may not be substituted for this form, nor may any wording of the form be changed. This form is intended for original material submitted to AJCT and must accompany any such material in order to be published by AJCT. Please read the form carefully.
The undersigned hereby assigns to the Asian Journal of Convergence in Technology Issues ("AJCT") all rights under copyright that may exist in and to the above Work, any revised or expanded derivative works submitted to AJCT by the undersigned based on the Work, and any associated written, audio and/or visual presentations or other enhancements accompanying the Work. The undersigned hereby warrants that the Work is original and that he/she is the author of the Work; to the extent the Work incorporates text passages, figures, data or other material from the works of others, the undersigned has obtained any necessary permission. See Retained Rights, below.
AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES
AJCT distributes its technical publications throughout the world and wants to ensure that the material submitted to its publications is properly available to the readership of those publications. Authors must ensure that The Work is their own and is original. It is the responsibility of the authors, not AJCT, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it.
RETAINED RIGHTS/TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Authors/employers retain all proprietary rights in any process, procedure, or article of manufacture described in the Work.
2. Authors/employers may reproduce or authorize others to reproduce The Work and for the author's personal use or for company or organizational use, provided that the source and any AJCT copyright notice are indicated, the copies are not used in any way that implies AJCT endorsement of a product or service of any employer, and the copies themselves are not offered for sale.
3. Authors/employers may make limited distribution of all or portions of the Work prior to publication if they inform AJCT in advance of the nature and extent of such limited distribution.
4. For all uses not covered by items 2 and 3, authors/employers must request permission from AJCT.
5. Although authors are permitted to re-use all or portions of the Work in other works, this does not include granting third-party requests for reprinting, republishing, or other types of re-use.
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
AJCT Copyright Ownership
It is the formal policy of AJCT to own the copyrights to all copyrightable material in its technical publications and to the individual contributions contained therein, in order to protect the interests of AJCT, its authors and their employers, and, at the same time, to facilitate the appropriate re-use of this material by others.
Author/Employer Rights
If you are employed and prepared the Work on a subject within the scope of your employment, the copyright in the Work belongs to your employer as a work-for-hire. In that case, AJCT assumes that when you sign this Form, you are authorized to do so by your employer and that your employer has consented to the transfer of copyright, to the representation and warranty of publication rights, and to all other terms and conditions of this Form. If such authorization and consent has not been given to you, an authorized representative of your employer should sign this Form as the Author.
Reprint/Republication Policy
AJCT requires that the consent of the first-named author and employer be sought as a condition to granting reprint or republication rights to others or for permitting use of a Work for promotion or marketing purposes.
GENERAL TERMS
1. The undersigned represents that he/she has the power and authority to make and execute this assignment.
2. The undersigned agrees to indemnify and hold harmless AJCT from any damage or expense that may arise in the event of a breach of any of the warranties set forth above.
3. In the event the above work is accepted and published by AJCT and consequently withdrawn by the author(s), the foregoing copyright transfer shall become null and void and all materials embodying the Work submitted to AJCT will be destroyed.
4. For jointly authored Works, all joint authors should sign, or one of the authors should sign as authorized agent
for the others.
Licenced by :
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
