One leak detected every six minutes


PETALING JAYA: Every six minutes, Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) detects a pipe leak on its water distribution network.

Syabas CEO Datuk Ruslan Hassan said the company found 5,357 pipe bursts and 84,640 pipe leaks in its 26,000km of pipes between Nov 2012 and Oct 2013.

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