IN a span of three weeks, residents in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur faced dry taps for several days due to odour pollution that forced water treatment plants to shut down.
The first two incidents occurred at the infamous Sungai Semenyih that has had a history of contamination problems since 2013 while the most recent one occurred in Sungai Semantan, Pahang, last Saturday.
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