UiTM's Toilets To Use Rain Water In Future

Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) will become the first university in the country to use treated rain water for toilets at its campuses.

For that purpose, UiTM will cooperate with the Drainage and Irrigation Department (JPS) through a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the UiTM Puncak Alam campus here Wednesday.

UiTM Vice-Chancellor Prof Datuk Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar said the MoU would allow UiTM and JPS to use their individual expertise to turn natural waste into a usable source.

"Among our focus is to use treated rain water in toilets at all UiTM campuses within two to three more years," he told a news conference after the MoU was inked.

Sahol said research on the use of rain water was being carried out at the UiTM Puncak Alam campus here, which has a student capacity of 30,000 people, before it was extended to other UiTM campuses.- BERNAMA