Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim (pic) today, for the first time, admitted there was a need to build the controversial Langat 2 water treatment plant.
Khalid said this today when answering a question from assemblyman Shahrom Mohd Shariff (Dengkil–BN) at the state assembly during question time.
The state had previously alleged that it was wrong for the federal government to focus on increasing raw water supply by pushing for the RMM8.65 billion Langat 2 project.
Khalid had instead wanted the state water concessionaire to finds ways to reduce non-revenue water wastage or loss of treated water through leakages in the pipe network.
Yesterday, he maintained that line of thought.
He said up to 17,000 million litres a day (MLD) of water can be stored in seven major dams in Selangor a day and the Selangor Water Management Authority will show the condition of the dams.
“The people in Selangor need between 3,000 to 3,5000 MLD but about 4,606 MLD can be distributed. At times, the volume can increase to 4,800 MLD,” he said.
“What happens is the consumers would only receive 70 percent of what was distributed due to the non-revenue water wastage.”
He said theoretically, if all treated water reaches consumers, then there would not be any water problem.
“Problem here is we lost 30 percent of the water as it reaches consumers. To solve this, we need to decrease the non-revenue water wastage from 30 percent, to 20 percent to 15 percent, as stated in the agreement with Syabas in 2011,” he added.
Earlier this week, Khalid had said the state government wanted the negotiation of the water restructuring exercise to be conducted comprehensively by taking into account the Langat 2 project, not in stages but as a whole.
The Langat 2 project involves construction of a 44.6km tunnel to bring in raw water from Sungai Semantan, Pahang to Sungai Hulu Langat in Selangor. – July 4, 2013.
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