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Nature 101: Mastering Precious And Limited Water Resource Management

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A primary goal in national water resource management strategies is to augment water reserves, ensuring a sustainable supply for various needs. Concurrently, it’s crucial to minimize non-revenue water—water that is produced but not billed due to factors like leaks, theft, or metering inaccuracies. By addressing these challenges, countries can promote water conservation, improve service delivery, and enhance the financial viability of water utilities. Image source: Facebook

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Environment 101: Clueless Kelantan PAS & Humourless Water Resource Management

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The State of Kelantan seems to be having a huge problem converting raw river water into clean drinking water to end consumers that meet international standards. However, this is not a question of luxury but a necessity given the demands of the growing population. It is a basic need of everyone. This is why it is very important to plan & manage these natural resources well.

Image source: Ahmed, Minhaz & Mokhtar, Mazlin & Alam, Lubna & Mohamed, Che Abd Rahim & Choo Ta, Goh. (2019). Non-carcinogenic Health Risk Assessment of Aluminium Ingestion Via Drinking Water in Malaysia. Exposure and Health. 11. 10.1007/s12403-019-00297-w.

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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 rivers that caused the water supply in Klang Valley 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 sabotage, 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!!

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A year ago when we were facing water 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 rivers to endanger innocent lives. Photo by Lum3n from Pexels

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Water Pollution 2019: Attack on Malaysia’s Water Security

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This was 6 years ago on water security index when Malaysia were in par with South Korea, Japan and Singapore on water security (capacities to secure enough water for their people). Image source: Recap Asia

With the regular incidents of pollution, will the level of water security will go down the drain and put Malaysia water security at jeopardy?

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Overseas Assignment 2007: TDS: Total Dissolved Solids in Kabul (Day 15)

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One of the key things that we often ignore is the level of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in our bottled mineral water and probably this is why sometimes normal boiled drinking water is safer to drink.  Image Source: The Take Out

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