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-problem:water pollution
-location:Alur Ilmu ,UKM
-who faced this problem:Ukm citizen that walk along Alur Ilmu and eat at the cafeteria nearby
(Fst cafeteria,Kiosk Fep and Pusanika cafeteria)

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- Found out that water hyacinth is a type of weed plant or known as pest
- Water hyacinth usually used as decoration in pond. - It easily grows in an extreme condition as it absorbs toxic wastes
- Convert it into nutrients for its growth
- Will need to use a high cost of money to control the population of water hyacinth
- Will hurt the local economies that lives beneath it and slowly dies due to insufficient amount of sunlight
- Difficult for certain fishes to move to the surface to breathe
- Basically, the problem is that the management of the cafeteria does not prioritise hygiene of their working place and obey the rules
- Things wont get worse if everyone gives their best commitment and dedicate to their work

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1) Alur ilmu polluted cause by spliting chemical waste from laboratory FST and food waste cafes along Alur Ilmu.

2) Chemical waste such as mercury and sulphur contain high concentration of heavy metal which can make Alur Ilmu become more polluted.

3) Food waste also cause Alur Ilmu release unpleasent smell which disturb people eat at cafe along Alur Ilmu.

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1) Find more articles about the water hyacinth.
-Growth rate
-How it works?

2) Interview with expert at UPM.
- More details about water hyacinth.
-experience with water hyacinth

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Siti Raihanah Binti Mohd Zaini (A165748)

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Siti Raihanah Binti Mohd Zaini (A165748)

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- went to UPM to interview an expert, Dr. Mohd Yusoff Ishak, a lecturer of Faculty of Environmental Studies
- Chose him because he did some researches on water quality and ecotoxicology, closely related to our main topic about water hyacinth
- He said that water hyacinth is actually a type of pest and usually used as decorations
- Consider as a weed in pond.
- It doubles its population in just seven days and it adapts easily to polluted
- Absorbs toxic contained in the pond as nutrients to grow in an extreme condition
- He said that water hyacinth can easily grow but this weed is choking tropical fresh waters and hurting local economies
- Everything living in the lakes and ponds beneath slowly dies
- Provide a shelter for parasites thus harming the safety of ecosystem
- Produce foul smell when it is rotting affected the surrounding of cafeterias along Alur Ilmu
- Need to control its population by using floating chopping machine and it is expensive which is around RM500 to RM700 for one machine

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Nur Maisarah Safia Bt Mohd Hizam ( A164575

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Nur Maisarah Safia Bt Mohd Hizam ( A164575

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- spread the questionnaire to FST student to solicit their opinion about the pollution at Alur Ilmu
- interview Pn. Suasanamasra who is incharge Alur Ilmu to ask about the pollution level

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Nur Maisarah Safia Bt Mohd Hizam (A164575)

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Nur Maisarah Safia Bt Mohd Hizam (A164575)

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-The problem is the pollution at Alur Ilmu affected people who are walking along Alur Ilmu
-Especially people who are eating at Kiosk FEP and Cafe FST which are beside the Alur Ilmu
- the pollution is come from the irresponsible person who are throw the waste of food to Alur Ilmu directly.
- it also comes from the chemical waste which they directly throw out to the sink that are connected to Alur Ilmu.
- Other than that, it also produced unpleasant odors especially after the rains stop. Its distrubing people who are eating at Kiosk FEO and Cafe FST.
- the small landslide occur during the rain is also causes water pollution at Alur Ilmu.
- This also will affected the image of UKM when the visitors visit to UKM especially when they visit Alur Ilmu.

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A164999

-Using water hyacinth
-can reduce water pollution in Alur Ilmu
-an aquatic plant
-can grow in ponds with extreme condition
-have many unique characteristics
-spongy(enable to float)
-high rate of growth
-roots (absorb pollutants)
-utilize pollutans for their growth

advantages
-easy to handle
-natural process with no harmful side effects
-does not required a man power skill
-cheaper than coventional method

disadvantages
-need wide space
-need high cost to remove it when its  population getting increases
-leads to blocking of water
-flash flood

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- True problem was came from the management of the cafeterias and person who work at laboratories.
- Next, the effect of chemical waste such as mercury into the Alur Ilmu.
- Algae bloom in the Alur Ilmu makes the colour of water became greeny
- Living habitats such as fishes and lizard became affected because of hazardous molecule and this led to bad water quality.
- The bad smell of Alur Ilmu effected people who passing through areas near Alur Ilmu.

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1. Asking management of cafeteria to install food trap. Those cafeterias do not have their own food trap, their license will be withdrawn.
2. Prepare chemical bins at laboratories near Alur Ilmu. So that, people who working at the laboratories would not throw the chemical waste into the Alur Ilmu.
3. Using bioremediation where introduced microorganisms to consume or breakdown environmental problem.
4. Using sediment trap once a week to collect foreign particles in the Alur Ilmu.
5. Not mixing the flow of sink to Alur Ilmu.

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