Sewerage company reflects on efforts to keep Malaysian waters clean

Modern sewage treatment plants nowadays can serve larger areas. In the case of IWK’s Pantai 2 regional sewage treatment plant, it serves 1.4 million people.

SINCE the early days of the nation’s birth, Malaysians have always placed hygiene as a top priority. From the 1900s, the use of the bucket system to remove human wastes gave way to more hygienic systems that today has evolved.

Along the way, there is a growing recognition that wastewater treatment is the solution to community sanitation by properly treating wastes into safer forms that is then released into the environment.