Water pollution must end

Out of service: A petrol station in the Klang Valley shutting down its toilets due to the recent water disruptions. — LOW LAY PHON/The Star

KLANG: Unscheduled water cuts are increasingly becoming a bane in highly industrialised Selangor, with the root cause being the discharge or seepage of effluents into raw water sources.

After a brief lull, the issue reared its ugly head again when a type of scheduled substance, poly methacrylic acid (PMAA), leaked out from a storage tank of a factory processing acrylic material for recycling.