Catuan Air: Krisis Syabas-Selangor Berterusan

Krisis antara Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) dengan kerajaan Selangor berterusan apabila Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibahim menyalahkan pemegang konsesi itu sebagai punca kekurangan bekalan air yang dihadapi penduduk sejak minggu lalu.

Menurut Abdul Khalid, jadual pengagihan air sepatutnya dilaksanakan oleh Syabas pada minggu lalu menerusi Pelan Tindakan Kecemasan supaya pengguna boleh membuat persiapan awal.

“Namun, Syabas sehingga kini gagal mengemukakan pembentangan pelan penjadualan pengagihan.

Selangor Water Rationing Will Not Affect Tourism Industry - Nazri Aziz

The Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz is optimistic that the tourism industry will not be affected by the water rationing which to be enforced in Selangor from tomorrow.

Instead, he said the ministry was confident that the target of having 28 million tourist arrivals in conjunction with the Visit Malaysia Year (VMY) 2014 would be achieved.

"Normally, people who come here for holiday would have booked (their flights and accommodations) three months in advance and I don't think that just because the (water rationing) announcement, they will cancel their visits to Malaysia...only natural disaster will give such an impact.

Salahkan Kemarau, Syabas Tak Proaktif - Rafizi

Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) didakwa tidak proaktif dalam membantu rakyat negeri Selangor apabila berlaku krisis air selain banyak menyalahkan faktor semulajadi termasuk kemarau.

Pengarah Strategi PKR Rafizi Ramli berkata, Syabas seolah-olah membuat serangan politik terhadap kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Selangor dengan menganggu bekalan air yang berterusan.

Tambahnya yang tidak boleh menerima alasan Syabas  bahawa paras ammnonia yang tinggi dalam loji pembersihan air boleh dikurangkan apabila berlakunya hujan.

"Apabila berlaku keadaan seperti ini, Syabas hanya mengharapkan hujan turun. Kenapa perlu tunggu hujan turun?

MB: Penjadualan Air Seluruh Selangor, Pastikan Bekalan Berterusan

Program penjadualan air di seluruh Selangor akan dilaksanakan bermula esok bagi memastikan bekalan air berterusan di negeri itu yang dibahagikan kepada dua zon.

Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, berkata penjadualan air itu melibatkan tempoh selama dua hari sesuatu zon menerima bekalan air dan dua hari satu zon tiada bekalan air secara bergilir.

Katanya, penjadualan itu lebih menumpukan kepada kawasan  yang menerima kesan daripada penutupan empangan akibat pencemaran yang berlaku baru-baru ini.

“Mulai esok, setiap pemegang meter air akan terima air secara berjadual, iaitu dua hari rumah itu akan dapat, lepas tu dua hari kemudian tidak dapat bekalan air dan begitulah seterusnya secara bergilir-gilir.

“Penjadualan air ini akan berterusan supaya air di empangan negeri ini tidak banyak digunakan dan bekalan air boleh disimpan untuk dua bunan akan datang,” kata Abdul Khalid ketika ditemui pemberita selepas menghadiri Perhimpunan Bulanan Kreajaan Negeri, di sini.

Selangor To Enforce Water Rationing Tuesday

The Selangor government is to enforce water rationing throughout the state Tuesday to help areas where there has been water supply disruption since Feb 7, Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said Monday.

He said water would be rationed in stages so that all areas would receive supply every two days.

"We pledge that every consumer will receive water, but it will be rationed to ensure supply every two days. In a week, consumers will receive water for four days," he told reporters after attending the monthly gathering of civil servants, here.

Khalid said the water rationing would go on until such time that the state government felt the need to discontinue it with the advent of the rainy season, most probably at the end of March.

Selangor water takeover ‘red flagged’

Rafizi Ramli today cautioned the Selangor state government to be wary of Putrajaya’s decision to invoke Section 114 of the Water Services Industry Act 2006 (Wasia).

The Act provides the Federal Government powers to compulsorily acquire the water assets at a reasonable price in view of national interest.

“Section 114 of Wasia allows the Federal Government through the National Water Services Commission (SPAN) to take over all assets, management and concession holder on the basis that such takeover feeds national interest,” Rafizi told a press conference here.

“The final result of invoking this Act is that all the water assets in the entire of Klang Valley will be under the Federal Government alone,” he added.

Following Putrajaya’s decision, water concessionaires in Selangor, including Puncak Niaga Holdings Bhd and Gamuda Bhd, may be forced to accept Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Bhd’s (KDEB) offer to acquire their water assets in the state.

Raw water license to be revoked

The Selangor government will terminate the raw water licenses given to Puncak Niaga Holdings Berhad, following the announcement of a joint takeover bid of four Selangor water concessionaires with the federal government

The state government has directed the Selangor Water Management Authority to issue a raw water license to the state-owned Kumpulan Dahrul Ehsan, in replacement of Puncak Niaga, said Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim in a statement yesterday.

A government source told FMT that following the termination, Puncak Niaga can no longer extract raw water from the state.

However, it can still supply treated water because that license was issued by the federal-owned National Water Services Commission.