The Selangor government should immediately stop giving misleading press statements on the current water issue in the state as it was causing unnecessary panic among consumers, The Association of Water and Energy Research Malaysia (AWER) said today.
Its president, S. Piarapakaran said the recent statement by the state government that the dams in Selangor were full and thus did not justify the call for water rationing was very misleading.
"The core issue is not raw water but the supply of treated water which is unable to keep pace with the rising demand," he said.
He told Bernama that what the water experts were telling was that the treatment plants were being overworked and any more strain on them might jeorpardise the supply chain, thus warranting rationing.
He explained that dams were designed to withhold water for specified periods and if the water was utilised faster than its planned usage, the water level in the dams would go down, thus causing supply disruption to the treatment plants.-- BERNAMA
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