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Water Pollution 2021: Two Water Disruptions, Faster Recovery This Time

Water Treatment

One of the biggest headaches, whenever we have disruption, is that once the plant starts working, it takes at least 2 days for the treated water to reach our homes.

The reason for the delay is due to the number of water treatment processes that need to be done before the water can be released to the end consumers. Those homes on hills like mine take even longer due to the lower water pressure. Image source: Dwyer

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Recycling 101: Why We Are Not Segregating Our Waste in Malaysia?

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In the made it mandatory for residents to separate their at the source and I was happy that finally something concrete being done on the manner our is being processed.

After all, we have not gone big by going with on a wider scale coupled with a greater push towards protecting the . Image source: Ministry of Housing & Local Government.

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Water Pollution 2020: Some Bad News, Some Good News to Ponder

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On 10th November 2020, the State of experienced another water disruption affecting some 1.1 million accounts making it the 9th disruption this year alone. This time the suspect is from Indah Water but there is another twist to the story. Image source: Facebook

It has been a fact that the state of Selangor has been having too many water disruptions and despite the offenders have been identified and punished, it has not been the end of the trouble for the consumers in this state. The matter has been talked about for far too long but there seems to be no proper closure to this man-made incidents.

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Water Pollution 2020: Why We Are Not Punishing Everyone For Water Disruptions?

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Seriously I have lost count but once again, someone had polluted the that caused the supply in to be disrupted again. And once again, the act of polluting the rivers seemed intentional and with little regards to the welfare of thousands of consumers. If it is not considered as malicious , then what is it then? A sheer recklessness? Image source: NST

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National Security 2020: Part 2 – Treat Water Pollution as Terrorist Attack!!

water river pollution disruption national nature Malaysia

A year ago when we were facing disruptions due to pollutions, I wrote that we need to treat water pollution as a terrorist attack. Think about it – there is no difference between water polluter pollutes the river that disrupts water supply to millions of household and terrorists who poison the to endanger innocent lives. Photo by Lum3n from Pexels

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Water Disruption 2020: Water Polluters – When Karma Finally Strikes!!!

Water disruption tap dry Selangor

Despite living in the tropics, disruptions has become part and parcel of our daily lives and it is due to man-made pollutions and often the culprits gets away with light or no punishments. Image source: Photo by PS Photography from Pexels  

If you have not been keeping up with the from Malaysia, a few days ago, major caused the shutdown of 4 plants causing to almost 1.2 million users. This is nothing new if you ask as we have been having water disruptions due to polluters for some time now.

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Fire Hotspots @ 13.09.2019

Fire Hotspot World

(The World is on – the latest satellite imaging shows Amazon is still burning. So is Central Africa and – Source)

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Environment 101: Indonesia Fire Hotspots & Haze

Indonesia Fire Hotspots Kalimantan

(No smoke without – the problem is does not respect borders. The hot spots are mainly emitting from . Image source: ASMC)

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Nuisance 101: Damn, I Hate Cats! They Are So Evil!

WARNING: Cat lovers, walk away right now…you may not like this post. You have been warned!

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(Cats are evil indeed – something in their eyes when they stare at you when you trying to chase it away from your home. Image source: http://www.debate.org)

One of the joys of moving a new house many years ago was the chance to do up a garden.

It was a joy because we used to stay in apartments which do not enough space for a garden (I mean a proper garden where we can dig in and plant things). So when I had the chance to buy a house of my own, I had great ideas on what I wanted to do with my garden, starting with beautiful carpet grass.

And when my dad retired and looking for a hobby to spend his time at , he took up gardening. And he was good at it too – a mango tree at the front, several types of flowering plants and he would spend hours running through the carpet grass to look for weeds. At one point, carpet grass was clean and trimmed and was wonderful to walk on.

And then evil descended at my neighbourhood…

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Prepping in Malaysia 101: Rationing Up Water For the Worst Part 2

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prepping water ration malaysia

(Some of the quick steps taken the State when the state faced with serious and ‘s anger over the matter got worse on daily basis. Image source: YB Hannah Yeoh)

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Devastating Chennai Floods 2015 & Art of Prepping

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Let’s talk about which is another key aspect of this blog (the other is how Malaysians drive on the road and of course politics) and on the recent disaster in Chennai, India. Image source: www.newindianexpress.com

Read these first:-

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Prepping in Malaysia 101: Rationing Up Water For the Worst Part 1

water prepping ration

( includes stocking up enough . More means higher water consumption and coupled with a longer run of the dry season causes a dangerous level at the water catchment areas. Image source: TheStar)

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