Looks like some people are having tons of fun mucking around with water. Count yourselves lucky they don't control the air! Oh, actually they do. But no one seems bothered with the yearly haze, air & river pollution, etc. Cigarette smoke and plastic bags are more important.
Ordinary folks cannot smoke in public but the plantation/farm owners can burn to their heart's content.
Ordinary folks cannot use plastic bags but factories are free to pollute the air and rivers.
Ordinary folks should not waste water, but the state can waste as much as they want through old leaking pipes.
To digress a bit, sometimes I wonder if people has got their priorities right. They tend to parrot those "save the earth" propagandas, because it's the hip thing to do, without thinking. Or is it hypocrisy?
Take for example, cigarettes and alkohol. Why is it that cigarettes get such bad rep compared to alcoholic beverages?
Both are addictive and harmful. Cigarettes are extremely harmful to the user but the harm done to other people is actually negligible, unless you lock yourselves in a small room and puff like a chimney. Alcohol on the other hand, has been proven to harm others in much greater numbers and frequency. Drunk driving, domestic and public violence, damage public properties, and even sexual crimes (if you're unlucky), or liaisons (if you're lucky). Cigarette smoking has never been known to cause any of those.
If they can come up with campaigns and enforcement against cigarettes, why can't they do the same for open burning? or alkohol? or pollution? or gambling even.
Anyway, the tap is still flowing, but the sky seems hazy.
24 Areas In Hulu Langat Brace For Water Cuts - Syabas
KUALA LUMPUR, June 17 (Bernama) -- Twenty- four areas in the Hulu Langat District are now bracing for unscheduled water disruptions due to depleting water in six main reservoirs as the demand is higher than the supply capacity, affecting 33,446 houses.
Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) corporate communication and public affairs general manager Priscilla Alfred said the areas were Kampung Bahagia in Bangi, Taman Jernang Jaya, Nuclear Centre, Genom, UKM Lingkungan 2, Taman Wawasan, Section 14, Section 15, Section 16, Section 1, Section 2, and Section 5 Tambahan in Bandar Baru Bangi.
Other areas are Section 4 Tambahan, Section 3, Section 4, Section 15 Tambahan, Section 13 Industrial Area in Bandar Baru Bangi, Bangi Golf Resort, Bandar Teknologi Kajang, Taman Harmoni Kajang, PKNS Beranang, Bandar Tasik Kesuma, Kampung Teras Jernang, and Taman Bukit Semenyih, she said in a statement today.
The depleted reservoirs in Bangi, Tasik Kesuma, Bandar Teknologi, Bangi Golf Course, Semenyih Baru, and Kajang Utama are receiving water from the Semenyih Water Treatment Plant, she said, adding that ironically the water treatment plant had reached its maximum capacity.
She said Syabas was having difficulty in getting treated water supply from alternative sources in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya as their reserve was already below one per cent.
Syabas is monitoring the situation and will update consumers on the development, she added.
- http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/ge/newsgeneral.php?id=1047180
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