WATER in the Klang Valley, especially in Subang Jaya, comes with sediments such as sand and mud. In fact, many homes in the Klang Valley have installed water filters. Those in Subang Jaya are likely to have an outdoor filter at the inlet as well. You will experience slightly coloured water if no indoor filters [...]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Many shops in Japan’s capital ran out of bottled water on Thursday after a warning of radiation danger for babies from a damaged nuclear plant where engineers are battling the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. A woman buys bottled water imported from France at a convenience store in central Tokyo March [...]

A water crisis looms ahead if Malaysians fail to make do with less. Not many would believe that there is an impending water shortage in Malaysia, especially if they are Kuala Lumpur folks who are often caught in traffic jams caused by downpours. But if climate change alters the favourable rainfall pattern, we will have [...]

SUBANG JAYA: Drinking water that is not clear is the single biggest complaint of consumers. Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) received about 200 complaints a month on this matter alone, said its executive director of technical development, V. Subramaniam. The smell, the taste and the discolouration of drinking water was an age-old problem faced by [...]

MORE than a million people in the Klang Valley were left high and dry when the Semenyih water treatment plant halted operations in the small hours of Tuesday morning following the discharge of leachate into the rivers in its catchment area. Though water contaminated with ammonia apparently does not pose a serious threat to human [...]