‘Sungai Kinta pollution needs to be tackled at source’

By IVAN LOH

ABOUT 30% of Sungai Kinta’s river basin is used for agriculture.

The Perak environment committee chairman Teh Kok Lim said this was based on an environmental assessment report conducted by the Global Environment Centre (GEC) between 2021 and 2022.

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