States must learn to share water


GEORGE TOWN: When taps suddenly ran dry in Penang and Kedah on Sunday, Charles Santiago took it as a sign.

The National Water Services Commission (SPAN) chairman said a greater degree of “interstate water resource distribution in times of crisis” was a must for the well-being of Malaysia as a whole.

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