Urgent lessons to be learnt from water cuts


  • Letters
  • Tuesday, 23 Jul 2019

IT was shortlived joy for the more than one million consumers affected by the emergency shutdown of Phase 1, 2 and 3 of the Sungai Selangor treatment plant last Friday when the water supply resumed yesterday – only to be shut down again on Sunday evening due to diesel pollution.

There are several urgent lessons to be learnt and appropriate action that needs to be taken by the relevant authorities.

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