Blog and Tweet 14/10/2018 Floods to tackle

Blog and Tweet 14/10/2018  Floods to tackle

Inspirations from farmers generating own electricity from El Salvador

        The rainy season has started in Sarawak and so the floods of any kinds and scales will happen at any place highland or lowland at any time.  To prevent your houses, sties, coops, cars, schools, farms, fish ponds or whatever to become the temporary reservoirs for the excess water from the so many dams nearby especially, it is advisable for the locals to think fast and act now how to dig tube wells, create ponds, reservoirs, or … to collect excess from the dams or elsewhere.  As you know that water forever flows to the place where it can stay. 

Don’t wait for the PH-crowned so called federal government or GPS-crowned Sarawak government to solve the problems timely.  For the late 20 years or so, how much have the government, be it federal or Sarawak government has done to improve the flood situations which are getting worse and worse in every passing days.   People especially in the rural areas should take the initiative to solve this problem yourselves first.  But you should be determined and united enough to ask for the payment for all the expenses incurred.  Bear in mind that each Sarawak Assembly member has been allocated RM5 million for Rural Transformation Projects and RM4 million for Minor Rural Project.  (Am I right each Sarawak Assembly member is allocated funds of 9 million for each constituency?)  Ask daringly for the funds.

To make Democracy works in your community, you should work collaborately and co-operatively for everybody’s good and welfare.  Democracy fails in many aspects just because many people take Democracy passively.  You rely on your leaders too much.  You should know the leaders are nothing with your support.  When they are elected as your representatives, they should play their roles well.

Floods just hit Bintulu and inundated some places and water even entered quite a number of houses.   You may get some flood compensation.  But is it enough to cover the losses?   Floods, big, medium or small come repeat so ofen.  The ministers are always as helpless as babies.  All they can do is those idiotic words of advice to tell you to move things to higher places!  

The flash floods Bintulu experienced not long ago after some downpour.  Many attributed the cause to be the blocked or narrow drains.  Nobody seemed to lift up their heads to think if the dams nearby were the main cause.

It is understood that when the water level of the dam has come to a certain level, water needs to be discharged or the dam will burst. 

        For those living in urban areas, we should think of tanks to collect rain water to prevent floods as well.

        So, again, I say, Democracy is the business of everybody.  So help each other to solve the problems before it is too late.  The losses in the flood is the losses of everybody.  I repeat, not to wait for the government to solve the woes of floods.