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Roy Goh
New Straits Times
07-28-2009
Water power janitor honoured
Byline: Roy Goh
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

KOTA KINABALU: A 42-year-old school janitor who built a micro hydro power generator from scrap metal and second-hand car parts received the Minister's Special Award at the State Environmental Awards on Friday.

Hamid Jasmin, a self-taught electrician from deep in the interior district of Tambunan, built what the villagers call the balasut because of its wheel-like shape made out of old cement mixers and used car gear boxes.
This enables a water wheel to turn the generator at a specific speed.

For the past five years, it has provided electricity to 20 households in ...

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