basin water blog

By 2050, about 70% of the world's population would be city dwellers and the latest UN estimates stated that the world's population was expected to climb to 9.2 billion in 2050. Many cities around the world are suffering from water stress.  In Malaysia, it it estimated that between 65 to 70% of the 28 million population live in the urban areas and water stress is fast developing due to high demends both for domestic and non-domestic uses.  S Piarapakaran, president of Association of Water and Energy Research Malaysia (AWER), as quoted by Borneo Post March 22nd,2011, stated that most of the cities in the country do not have a water treatment plant within their vicinity, for example Taiping.  Bukit Larut catchment that supplying water for Taiping is currently subjected to threat from development.  More than 200,000 people are depending on the water source.  He was also stressing about the important of having proper reserved margin in designing water treatment and ...

Water Supply at the Sarawak State are delivered by Kuching Water Board, Sibu Water Board, and LAKU Management Sdn Bhd. Beside those three there are 89 water supply authorities under the state Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR), which supply drinking water according to the National Drinking Water Standards. All together the water boards and authorities are servicing 76.3 % of the population, 100 % of the urban area, and 54.4 % of the rural population. Works are progressing to achieve the target of 70% of rural population by the end of Ninth Malaysia Plan. In some areas, the water is come from low lying rivers that covered with peat swamp forest, for example Miri, where the water come from Bakong river.  The water is colour (yellowish) due to the organic content, but it is not harmful for human consumptions.  Other source of water that being studied for low lying area is from groundwater.