Again?! Another water cut in Selangor area and this time round 1,139,008 household will be affected. Probably, you also lost count how many times we had water cut in 2020? Malay mail just reminded us, this is the 9th time water supply in Klang Valley has been disrupted this year.
The water cut will start from 6pm today (Nov 10) due to contamination at four water treatment plants in Selangor. The disruption will affect 1,279 areas in Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Klang, Shah Alam, Kuala Selangor, Gombak and Kuala Langat, Air Selangor said.
The reason for the water cuts is the raw water source at the water treatment plants at SSP 1, 2, 3 and Rantau Panjang were found to be contaminated at 12.45pm today.
According to their press statement that Air Selangor released at 3pm, Nov 10, TON (Threshold Odour Number) emanating from Rantau Panjang registered 8 TON while the water treatment plants were at 4 TON.
“Efforts to dilute the solvents and ‘flush’ the contaminants that we found in Sungai Selangor have been done by releasing 300 million litres of water from the Sungai Selangor dam and 500 litres from the Sungai Tinggi dam daily.
“At the same time, Air Selangor has pumped 192 litres of raw water from the KL Larut pool for the very same reasons.
“We understand the need for clean water especially in times of Covid-19 and the conditional movement control order and are taking all necessary steps to minimise the impact of these disruption to our affected customers,” the water company added.
▼But again, netizens were fumed over the several water cuts in the state, some suggested hefty punishment towards those polluters, some criticised the water company being incompetence.
▼ Some netizens suggested the board of directors to resign. Don’t blindly take wages and make citizens suffered.
▼ one netizen said,” Raya only once a year, but water cut is like every month”, and one even poking fun saying the most useless thing in year 2020, first passport ( because border is closed due to the pandemic), second, Air Selangor ..
However, Air Selangor did not stated date to resume water supply will keep everyone posted through update on their social media and website.
Kindly click on the following link for more information on the affected area : Air Selangor Lampiran A