All over the world, including Malaysia, management of rivers is a central issue in this 21st Century. While government has always been traditionally entrusted with the responsibility of managing rivers, increasingly, the public, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations), industrialists, farmers, and other stakeholders are playing a greater role. Sustainable management of rivers involves cooperation between countries and states sharing the same river basin, and cooperation between government and all stakeholders. Internationally, countries need to negotiate and use rivers as the basis for peace rather than conflict. In Malaysia, the Federal Government can initiate policies and remain in charge of governance of rivers, in consultation and cooperation with state governments. However, government must relinquish some of its responsibility on river management to all other stakeholders, viz. industrialists, entrepreneurs, farmers, communities/squatters, NGOs, educational institutions, fishermen, conservationists, tourists, the general public, etc. All stakeholders need to start taking proactive actions, even sacrifices, to manage, protect, conserve and restore our rivers so that their resources can be sustained for future use. This is where people from all levels ranging from politicians, policy makers, private companies, NGOs to individuals can play crucial roles. River management and related river issues need to involve NGOs and the people as these issues happen at the local level. Decision-making regarding solutions should be carried out at the lowest appropriate level, ideally involving all stakeholders ranging from government to the private sector, NGOs, the local community and schools. People should be the focus both in decision making as well as active "workers" involved with restoration work. The motto of "Malaysia Boleh" (Malaysia Can) involves all Malaysians.This paper discusses how all stakeholders can contribute by working together in smart-partnerships with government towards effective and sustainable management of rivers in Malaysia.

The map has widely been used to depict and disseminate information on the spatial distribution of various diseases, including cancer cases. Increasingly, population-based cancer data need to incorporate spatial information that enables various spatial and proximity analyses to be conducted whereby results can be graphically presented. Yet, disease maps as a communication form remain largely unexamined. This is probably due to the confidentiality of the disease cases and the cost of incorporating the spatial component in the database. In the state of Penang, Malaysia, although Penang Cancer Registry (PCR) collects and collates data of all cancer cases diagnosed in the state as well as cancer cases diagnosed elsewhere whose home address is given as a Penang address, geographical location is not included. Mapping of cases using information from PCR will give a fairly complete picture of spatial distribution of cancer cases from Penang State and clustering of cases can be readily evaluated. This study demonstrates the application of spatial analysis methods and GIS in mapping and understanding the spatial distribution of Colorectal cancer cases in Penang State. The cases were mapped to identify spatial clustering of cancer cases and measure distance from existing health facilities. This study finds that spatial information is pertinent to be included as part of the database kept by Cancer Registry since this information can effectively be used for communications with and education of the public, as well as for planning health care delivery.

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Sustainable management in water resources development strategies depends on the knowledge of phenomena of changes in land use in the river basin as a significant tool in understanding the interactions of environment and human activities. Changes that occur within a certain period on the land cover or land use impacts the basin characteristics, which will ultimately affect river basin management. This paper studies the change of land use in the Lombok river basin in Indonesia based on the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land use/land cover data version 6 from the years of 2001, 2010, and 2016 which were derived using MODIS Terra and Aqua reflectance supervised classification data. Land use data was then classified into fifteen land use categories according to SWAT classification. QGIS and MapWindow software were applied to analyse the features of land use in the study area, and the SWAT simulation model was applied to simulate the impacts of changing land use in the sub-basin. The study concludes that areas with occurrences of changes in land use impacted the river runoff in the sub-basin. Analysis of river basin land use, when combined with simulation in water resources management, will contribute to optimal and sustainable river basin planning.

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