IRATE consumers slam Rozali's Syabas concessionaire for WATER CUT

PETALING JAYA - Residents in the Klang Valley slammed Syabas for the water cut Tuesday.

"Water cuts cause difficulties for my family as we need to store water and have to fork out more money to buy mineral water for drinking and cooking purposes.

Water distributor Syabas is controlled by Umno tycoon Rozali Ismail, who has frequently been accused of mixing politics with his business duties.

Those who are away at work won't feel the effect but housewives like me have to change our daily routine," Taman Kinrara resident Rachel Thangamuthu said.

"One-day water cut is what they (Syabas) usually say but it will get prolonged," expressed an angry consumer from Shah Alam who did not wish to be named.

He said the water concessionaire must consider the elderly and children before implementing supply disruption for such long hours, adding that consumers in apartments and flats are the most affected as there is not much room to store sufficient water supply.

"No one likes water cuts and consumers these days don't have tanks to store water," said Jessica Jacob, a resident from Lucky Garden, Bangsar.

"We also have to make do with minimal water that we manage to store in containers and it is worse when the disruption takes place at such short notice," she said. - Agencies