Looking to the sky for water Desa Mentari community gets new rain harvesting system, thanks to tie-up


Since 2007, the Spark Foundation has assisted Sungai Way residents living in parts of Desa Mentari (Block 1 to 5) to set up a community environmental educational hub called the ‘Sungai Way Community River Info Centre’.

THE Desa Mentari Block 1 community in Petaling Jaya has embarked on rainwater harvesting with the water harvested used in their community garden.

It is estimated that some 1mil litres of water will be harvested annually through the project and it would benefit some 1,800 residents here.

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