Slum Population

Slum Population

The United Nation defines Slum as “is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security”. There are 1 billion slum populations in the world and the figure will double up to 2 Billion by 2030. Slum population rate worldwide is decreasing from 47% to 37% from 1990-2005 but overall population is increasing thus number of slum population is swelling.

Rainwater Harvest

The Facts

Blue as it seen from above, this planet is cover with 70% of water but only 3% from it is fresh water. Discounted another 2% of the fresh water reserved as ice on Artic and Antarctica so we have only left 1% fresh water in this blue blue planet.

A shape of potatoes on the left and a puppy on the right, this is how Malaysia display on the world maps. With the total land size of 329,847km² it is showering with total of 990 billion m³ of rain each year of which 566 billon m³ becomes surface runoff, 360 billion m³ evaporated back to the atmosphere while 64 billion m³ discharges as ground water.  Malaysia has the mean annual rainfall of 2,300mm and potential evaporation average about 1,500mm.

Branding's Waste

Branding has become a big hit in every corner of business arena. In fact, it has become an essential part of the money tree to reap financial fruit from potential customer. So how does “Branding” come about? I suppose it started out of nothing more than a company delivering quality goods or services that gained its popularity over time and that particular company goods and services is recognized as branded. Quality being meeting customer expectation in some form or another such as durability, accuracy, technology advancement, appearance, reliability, effectiveness and the list go on but it’s the persistence standard of quality that make hungry consumer keep spending money and gossip about it. To create a brand it take time, cost, new ideas and risk but the reward is as lucrative as the capital invested, so much so as the failing.

Hungry Species

Earth; Gaia; Terra (Host)

Earth, with the mass of 5.9736 × 1024 kg, it hang itself some 149,597,890 km from the sun (3^rd Planet closest to sun) making it the only planet known to sustain live within the solar system. At the age of 4.54 billion years it is struggling to host more than 7 billion of its dominant species; Homosapiens or Human.