GUA MUSANG (BERNAMA) – A group of teenage boys was excited to go swimming on Thursday in a river in Kelantan, Malaysia but tragedy struck after one of them, a person with disabilities, drowned. Gua Musang District Police Chief Superintendent Sik Choon Foo said earlier the victim, Muhammad Fakhrul Imam Zulkepli, 16, together with his […]
Effecting positive change: Lam’s experience as a flood victim spurred him on to devise a water production system with his teammates.
A PHD candidate’s experience of coping with floods and the resulting effects on daily life led him to come up with a solution to Malaysia’s clean water problem.
Together with two other researchers, Lam Jia Yong from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Norfazliana Abdullah from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Mohamad Fakhrul Ridhwan Samsudin from Universiti Teknologi Petronas designed an automated self-powered water treatment and monitoring system for drinkable water production.
The team worked together on this project during the 2020 Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) Chrysalis programme, and subsequently won the Best Team Award for the Chrysalis Award.