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.
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