Projects

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:26

1. FLOOD FORECASTING AND WARNING SYSTEM PROGRAMME

Integrated Flood and Rainfall Management (IFFRM)

Integrated Flood Forecasting and river Monitoring (IFFRM) is a project that integrate Flood Forecasting Model and monitoring on water resources related issues like water quality, drought and debris flow. Klang River Basin was choosen as the first river basin to implement this concept because Klang Valley is the most developed area in the country. Kuala Lumpur, the capitol city with 4 million population experienced severe flood every year is situated in the Klang Valley. For this reason a total 88 hydrological stations have been setup across Klang River Basin to record and monitor rainfall, water level, soil moisture, water quality, water flow and weather (using met stations). These data will be used as input  for flood forecasting model to give efficient and accurate flood forecasting  and warning to relevant agencies related with water namely JPS Kuala Lumpur, JPS Selangor, DBKL, Local Autorithy , Dam operator and media. With this information, the agencies can made decision and make preparation for incoming flood to reduce the impact of flood in the affected area.

 

Control Room of the IFFRM project

2. WATER RESOURCES STUDY

i) Integrated Water Resources Study For The Northern Region Of Peninsular Malaysia

 

The northern region of Peninsular Consisting of perlis, Kedah and Pulau Pinang is an important area for agriculture particularly paddy cultivation. The Muda Irrigation Scheme, known as the rice bowl of Malaysia and the Integrated Agricultural Development Project Pulau Pinang jointly produces more than half of the country’s rice production. Nevertheless, the region is facing water resources problem in the last few decades due to rainfall variability and increasing water demand as a result of rapid social economic development. Padio planting had to be abandoned or delayed in the year 1977, 19778, 1982, 1991 and 1998 in Muda Scheme consequent to water shortages. Domestic and industrial water supply in the region has been interrupted due to water resources availibility constraint.

JPS is the national agency in charge of hydrology and flood forecting function. JPS establish thousand of hydrological stations country–wide and maintain the national database on hydrology. Reliabiliry of any water resources study will require adequate hydrological data, in term of quantity and quality. Hence it is a great importance to develop a hydrological databese with complete set of accurate data. The database so developed shall be used to update and improve upon previous water resources studies.

The scope of the study are to review and update the water resources availibility, water demand and water quality status for the study area using the JPS databases and field collection of additional data, to study and proposed improvement of the hydrological network in the study areas for the optimal development and management of water resources, to review the feasibility and implementation schedule of the proposed water resources projects under NWRS (EPU 2000) within the study area and to suggest areas that needs to be preserved and refined from any develipment project for sustainable water resources.

The total cost of the project is RM 2.5 Millions and the study is expected to be completed by middle of year 2009.

 

ii) Drought Information Website

Drought monitoring program was initiated since early 2001.To disseminate info, on-line on the Water Resources Status.To provide early warning on Potential Drought.Technical Advisory on Drought Status. Closed relationship between water resources status and current rainfall amount received. Therefore, in this program rainfall data of 41 selected stations are used in the analysis to reflect the water resources status of Peninsular Malaysia. In this case the percentage of deviation from the long term mean (LTM) value of 3 monthly moving rainfall totals is used as indicator of the water catchments condition. A negative deviation from the LTM value indicates that the particular region is experiencing a dryer than normal condition and vice versa. In general if a certain catchment is receiving rainfall (3 monthly rainfall total) less than 60% of the LTM for a consecutive period of 3 months and more. Then, it may be expected that the amount of runoff or water resources of that catchment to be adversely affected. It is, therefore hoped that this monthly monitoring program will serve to provide early warning on the in pending water shortages of a particular region. Upgrading works are still in progress.