Besides offering subsistence to village inhabitants through fishing and other activities, rivers are the backbone of life and economy for villages. All over the world, urban rivers have been redirected, confined, turned into channels and streams, built over and, in some cases, forgotten. In many major cities, rivers have been reduced to urban drainage systems that have left the water polluted and ecosystems destroyed. Enter the river of life (RoL), river restoration or save the river projects. River restoration has turned the area around it into a “green oasis” — a 5.8km-long, crystal clear waterway, much like a “day-lit” stream corridor, which attracts more than 60,000 visitors daily.

Source: New Strait Times October 07, 2019 15:56 UTC