BAKAS – Bekalan Air dan Kebersihan Alam Sekeliling.-PADANG TERAP

BAKAS – Bekalan Air dan Kebersihan Alam Sekeliling.

Objectives:
To increase the standard of health and cleanliness of the villagers and reduce the incidence of communicable diseases through encouraging a clean environment, clean and safe water supply and usage of a complete sanitary toilet.
Activities:
Provide complete flushing toilets, either by modification or supplying new ones.
Supply polypipe and fittings to enable a connection to JKR or KKM water supplies.
Building of “control wells”
Building of “control wells” with connections to houses
Building of Gravitational Feed System (GFS)
Building of rain water collection system (STAH – sistem tadahan air hujan)
Building of proper drainage system for used water (SPAL – Sistem pelupusan air limbah)
Building of solid waste disposal system ( SPSP – Sistem pelupasan sisa pepejal)
Surveillance and sampling of suburban water supply.
Health education, advice and monitoring environmental cleanliness.
Control and prevention of complications of iodine deficiency.
Tourist attractionsanitary examination program.

The wells built are all of no cost to the occupants of the villages.
There are two types of wells, one a manual pump, the other powered by electrical motor. The system is free of charge, but the villagers have to pay for the electrical bill. The electrical system is normally built in preference to the manual system, except in cases where no electricity is available.
Each well undergoes evaluation twice a year.
There is only one well drilling machine in the entire state of Kedah. (And it’s 30 years old)
There are a total of 32 wells currently servicing the district of Padang Terap.
Previously the toilets were built for the villagers by the unit, but since the increase in demand, they now build one as a model and ask the villagers to reproduce for themselves.
There are 2 GFS in Padang Terap; Perik and Puncak Janing.
Water from a river is collected into a man made reservoir where it builds up enough potential energy to provide a continuous water supply through a filter into thick PVC pipes which carries the water to the villagers.
SPAL works in the following way;
Water from the sink enters a filter box which separates it from most of the food waste.
The filter is cleaned every 3 to 4 days.
The water then enters an underground water collection tank.
When that is full, it pours out the water through freely laid out gravel which acts like a filter before passing into a second collection tank.
From there it is then carried away through the general drainage system.
We’d like to thank the villagers for giving us some of the best rambutans we’ve had and also for showing us a smoking monkey.