River Pollution In Malaysia

1 6 2 environ mental policy in malaysia to control river water pollution malaysia has been pollution related legislation from the 1920s through the w ater act 1920 the main objective of the leg.

River pollution in malaysia. Malaysia river pollution cuts water supply to more than 300 000 people pengurusan air selangor sdn bhd said it could not provide an expected timeframe when water would flow into the taps again. Malaysia aims to pull the plug on water. Pollution believed to be chemical waste has been detected in the klang river said the selangor water management authority luas. More than 300 000 consumers in selangor will be without water for the second time in a month after another river pollution incident caused unscheduled water cuts today.

Location of the langat and klang rivers. This bill requires the support and acceptance of all state governments to ensure that issues such as river pollution can be handled uniformly. The sources of pollution come from domestic and industrial sewerage effluents from livestock farms manufacturing and agro based industries suspended solids from mining housing and road construction logging and clearing of forest and heavy metals from factories. The pollution was first reported to luas at about 6pm.

The total length of the lrb is 78 km with a catchment area of 2350 km 2. Selangor water officials checked the waters at sungai selangor early this morning but did not find any pollution. River pollution traced to indah water. This empirical study was conducted in the langat river basin lrb and in the klang river basin krb both located in selangor state malaysia.