Urgent call to preserve KL’s flood defences

Flash flood in Kajang, Selangor earlier this month. — Courtesy of Khidmat Malaysia

ENVIRONMENTAL experts are urging the government to curb any form of development taking place at Kuala Lumpur’s flood retention ponds, as these are critical to the city’s flood defence strategy and integral to its overall flood mitigation.

“It is time to bolster our defences against climate change, as the weather we are witnessing now is unprecedented and unpredictable,” said former National Water Research Institute of Malaysia (Nahrim) director-general Datuk Nor Hisham Mohd Ghazali.