No water crisis despite heat, says SPAN


PETALING JAYA: The temperature is rising and both river and dam levels are falling, but there is no fear of a water shortage, says National Water Services Commission (SPAN) chairman Charles Santiago.

He admitted that some rivers are recording depleting water levels because of the weather.

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