PMG 511 Assignment 1

From the article ‘Newly Innovated Machine To Be Used To Clean lakes’ in the city of Kuala Lumpur from The Star Online written by Vijenthi Nair .

The article were focused on issue of overgrown of the Hydrilla verticillata weed on every lake garden around the city of Kuala Lumpur and Permaisuri Lake Garden were also stated in the zone other than Titiwangsa Lake Garden , Kepong Metropolitan Park and Batu Metropolitan Park  . A weed cutting machine also known as weed buster has been innovated to cut off the weed on the lake . As it has been so many complain by the visitors , City Hall’s Landscape and Recreational  Department take a huge step into intervention in order serve a nice park to visitors. The weed has been identified as one of the factor that destroy the ecosystem in the lake , spread the bad odour . But on the other side , it was found that the weed can be useful to fertilize the trees as it will be a good compost fertilizer because of content of  Nitrogen .

The main issue from this article is the overgrown of weed on the lake . The weed can grow up to 30ft below the water surface hence disrupt the activity of fishing and boat rides, kayaking and water polo and these weed also threatening the fishes and the ecosystem in the lake and the bad odour of this weed giving a hard time to visitor .

The problem finally meet the ultimate long term solution . Since it was hard to maintain the lake using manpower which is highly cost on budget , a weed cutting machine were launch by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to solve the issues that have been reported by the visitor which find that the weed has been a major problem to water activity . According to Mayor Datuk Seri Ahmad Phesal Talib  “This machine will soon replace the conventional way of cutting weeds where a contractor has to manually cut the weeds with a cutting pole . The manual way is inefficient and time consuming” . This mean that the weed cutting machine will replace the manual way which the machine will be more efficient over the old way and will no longer costly . Other than that , the weed cutting machine also can scoop up the floating debris after the cutting session operated .

After all , water elements and plant species in lakes plays an important role for public park for the development of the park as to ensure the ecosystem that exist stay in a good condition and did not affected the activity of the visitor on the park .

REFERENCE

1. Vijenthi Nair. (2014, November 26). Newly Innovated Machine To Be Used To Clean Lakes.

Retrieved from https://www.thestar.com.my/news/community/2014/11/26/newly-innovated-machine-to-be-used-to-clean-lakes/

2. (2014,November 22). Lower lake maintenance.

Retrieved from https://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/09/lower-lake-maintenance

3. Malaysia Productivity Corporation ( MPC) .(2016,November 16) Germination 2

http://www.mpc.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/161021-10-PG-BUKU-GERMINATION-2-DBKL-KEBANGSAAN.pdf