KUALA LUMPUR: Housing projects and land-clearing activities near the Klang River have been the major cause of the alarmingly low river water quality.
Although the water quality index rating had improved slightly over the past two years, suspended solids discharged from land development projects upstream have played a major part in the river’s current polluted state, said Federal Territory Department of Environment director Wan Ramlah Wan Ibrahim.
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