Sunday, November 2, 2008

drains and ecology

I miss the old fashioned natural drains where you can find fishes in them and plants growing in the drains. I still see some big fishes in the drains in Kuching, along Bampflyde Road. At least 6 inches long, the ones that i saw. i think those are sepats.

I think Sarawak does have nice natural drains. In Sarikei, i saw nice water hyacinths, well, along the roads in Kuching, around the Matang area, there's also lots of water hyacinths in the drains. But in Sarikei, it was the hyacinths coupled with a couple of baby storks flying low that I thought hmm, it would be nice if we could rehab some of the drains in Bangsar for that.

I am in the process of rehabitating our drains in th garden and it would be nice if i do eventually see water hyacinths and maybe some big fishes. Now the dains in Port Klang have some nice yellow water plants too except the drains are polluted so its hard to appreciate the plants. Maybe the Klang council could clean the drains along the main road from Klang to Port Klang and those nice water plants could then thrive in the drains.

The plants could themselves act as a water filter whilst slowing the water flow down the drains.

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