Salcon Berhad, Water Watch Penang (WWP) and Malaysian Water Partnership (MyWP) jointly launched Salcon Inter-state River and Water Awareness Competition, a finale to the year-long River & Water Awareness & Education Programmes at Monash University on 3rd November 2012.
The Salcon Inter-state River and Water Awareness Competition 2012 is the culmination of the year-long River & Water Awareness & Education Programme. A total of 48 students from 12 selected schools in the Klang Valley participated in this competition to grab home the challenge trophy.
Salcon River & Water Awareness Inter-State Competition 2012 was officiated by Y. Bhg. Dato’ Ir Haji Hanapi bin Mohamad Noor (second from the right), Director of Management Water Resources & Hydrology, Department of Irrigation & Drainage, accompanied by Dato’ Eddy Leong Kok Wah, Executive Director of Salcon Berhad, Associate Prof. Dr. Catherine Yule, Deputy Head of School of Science and Prof. Dr. Chan Ngai Weng, President of Water Watch Penang.
Special thanks also to Professor Catherine Yule for sponsoring the use of the Auditorium in Monash Universty to carry out the competition. It was a very nice and spacious hall with well equipped facilities such as PA & lighting system, slide monitoring system which made the competition to be carried out smoothly.
Participants were tested on global, national and local water-related issues. All of them strive to score points for their own school as best as they could with the knowledge learnt from school and also the study material provided to them before the competition.
The Champion of the Inaugural Salcon River and Water Awareness Competition was SJK(C) Puay Chai 2. First and Second Runner-up were SJK(C) Connaught 2 and SJK (T) Effingham respectively.
A buffet lunch for all participants and working crew bring the event to the end, it is hoped that Salcon River and Water Awareness Education Programme can be carried out next year with bigger supports from more schools and also relevant authorities.
Salcon would like to thank Professor Chan and his dedicated team from Water Watch Penang for their support and commitment throughout these 2 years in helping us to achieve our CSR goal of raising awareness amongst the young on the importance of river and water conservation.
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