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Table 1
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SDG
Projects
Partners
Relevance/Implication
Findings/Outcome
SDG 6: Clean water
and sanitation
Remediation and
conservation of Sunway
Lagoon (SL)
• Sunway University
• USM
• Yunnan University
• Vietnam National University
• To rehabilitate the lake water quality to a
level adequate as a source of usable
water, after adequate treatments
• To help increase water adequacy and
sustain water security for the Sunway
City
• To reduce/eliminate the use of
man-made aerators, consistent with
SDG 6 and SDG 14
• Possible negative role of high fish
density on SL water quality
• Within a decade, an undesirable scenario
of hyper-eutrophic water quality cannot
be ruled out
• Need to constantly and consistently
remove accumulated nutrients and other
pollutants by simple and sustainable
means
• Lake water at depth of 7.0–7.5 m should
be drained regularly and replaced with
rainwater
• The drained water with high nutrients
can be used for in-house vegetation
watering
SDG 13: Climate
action and
mangrove
conservation
Sea level rise (SLR) impact
on coastal groundwater and
vegetation
• USM
• USGS
• University of Miami
• Sunway University
• UTM
• FRIM
• To assess the impact of climate-change,
SLR, on low lying coasts and atoll
islands
• To study the effect of salinity intrusion
on coastal biodiversity and agriculture
• Groundwater and vegetation model
MANTRA is developed for projection
• Integration of STEM disciplines
• Contribute towards achieving water,
food and agriculture security
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Table 1
(continued)
SDG
Projects
Partners
Relevance/Implication
Findings/Outcome
SDG 6: Clean water
and sanitation
Remediation and
conservation of Sunway
Lagoon (SL)
• Sunway University
• USM
• Yunnan University
• Vietnam National University
• To rehabilitate the lake water quality to a
level adequate as a source of usable
water, after adequate treatments
• To help increase water adequacy and
sustain water security for the Sunway
City
• To reduce/eliminate the use of
man-made aerators, consistent with
SDG 6 and SDG 14
• Possible negative role of high fish
density on SL water quality
• Within a decade, an undesirable scenario
of hyper-eutrophic water quality cannot
be ruled out
• Need to constantly and consistently
remove accumulated nutrients and other
pollutants by simple and sustainable
means
• Lake water at depth of 7.0–7.5 m should
be drained regularly and replaced with
rainwater
• The drained water with high nutrients
can be used for in-house vegetation
watering
SDG 13: Climate
action and
mangrove
conservation
Sea level rise (SLR) impact
on coastal groundwater and
vegetation
• USM
• USGS
• University of Miami
• Sunway University
• UTM
• FRIM
• To assess the impact of climate-change,
SLR, on low lying coasts and atoll
islands
• To study the effect of salinity intrusion
on coastal biodiversity and agriculture
• Groundwater and vegetation model
MANTRA is developed for projection
• Integration of STEM disciplines
• Contribute towards achieving water,
food and agriculture security