Cloud seeding ops to begin


Fast drying up: Syarikat Air Negri Sembilan engineer Mohd Noor Hairi Ab Razak (left) and Gemencheh plant engineer Mohamad Amin Abu Zaka discussing the water level at the Gemencheh dam. The water at the dam is expected to be able to last for only another 25 days if the dry spell continues. - Bernama

PETALING JAYA: Cloud seeding operations are expected to take place today over water catchment areas serving water treatment plants in four states which have not seen rain over the past one month.

Malaysian Meteorological Depart­ment (MMD) senior meteoro­logist Azhar Ishak confirmed yesterday that cloud seeding was likely to be conducted over catchment areas of dams in Selangor, Johor, Malacca and Negri Sembilan today and tomorrow.

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