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Najib blames rationing on free water policy
Real Truth: Prime Minister Najib Razak should not play politics with
water. There was never free water to the consumers in the first place in Selangor, because the Selangor government paid en bloc for every household the minimum RM10.80 to Syabas and so there is no such thing as free water.
This water rationing was due to some shortage owing to dry weather, but mostly due to mismanagement on the part of water concessionaire Syabas and mostly a power play to discredit Selangor government.
The PM must be true to its rakyat.
Multi Racial: Selangor's water subsidy was given even in the previous term. What we have now is a drought and it was the BN government's past mistake for awarding the job to Syabas. The biggest problem is both the federal and state governments are politicising the matter and Syabas, which is supposed to be a professional private company, has also joined in.
Right now, Najib is still politicising. What a shame.
Tak Apa: I can't see Najib's logic. Free water may lead to reduction in revenue for the state but how to relate it to the water shortages due to prolonged dry spell? Furthermore, Mr Najib, we are not kampung folks and hence don't take words at face value.
When you promise no water rationing under BN, please share more on how you will do that? Has the BN government invented a water-making machine that can supply water even though there is no rain at all?
John Low: Is Najib saying when you charge more for water, its rains more often? Or is it because when we pay less, Syabas make less profit, so it's no water for us lah.
Abasir: Najib as usual does not mention the utter disgrace known as the Syabas water distribution system of leaking pipes as uncoordinated and disconnected as everything else in Bolehsville.
Neither does he say anything about the millions paid to the so‑called Syabas CEO for doing nothing. After so many years of a corruption‑ravaged administration in Selangor helmed successively by handpicked on‑the‑take MBs, it's a wonder we have water at all.
Patriot1: Syabas is about the only company in Malaysia where the CEO is still paid millions per year while the company runs into tens of millions in losses every year. Really, Malaysia is Bolehland.
Gerard Lourdesamy: How rich coming from 'Mr Deficit'. Najib has totally mismanaged the public finances to the point that the federal deficit has probably exceeded 55% of the GDP if government guarantees are included.
The frequency with which Parliament votes in supplementary supply bills is a record since independence in 1957. The Umno/BN government has been an abject failure in reducing corruption, wastage and leakages simply because of Umno's entrenched policies of cronyism and patronage.
The water crisis in Selangor is not due to the free water policy under the Pakatan government, but because of decades of failure by Syabas and Puncak Niaga, both owned by the arch‑Umno crony Rozali Ismail who is paid RM450,000 per month for incurring billions in losses, which are underwritten by the Umno/BN federal government to reinvest in the water distribution network, replacing the aging pipes and building more treatment plants.
But Najib should be the last to point figures. How much are you and your wife Rosmah worth?
Fairnessforall: Najib, water is not a luxury, it is a necessity. It was the idiotic BN governments privatising the water companies that led to the water rationing, not the Selangor government's free water programme.
Why should water and electricity be privatised and their CEO's take big fat salaries and yet cannot do the job? What an idiot of the highest order. Get your facts right. Take back the water and electric companies and place them under the government.
Too Lan: Free water is only limited to a small volume, stupid. The problem is why a dam is without water despite it raining every day? Because BN had overdeveloped the areas around the catchment zone.
Ckl0001: I heard this same argument about deterring people from using excessive water by charging more for it, from a layman the other day.
Wow, the PM too thinks like that. How about improving efficiency by reducing the large amount of treated water lost from old pipes, and like Singapore, to also recycle used water, desalinate sea water etc.
PM, you have so many consultants, and what are they paid to do?
Anonymous_3e86: BN/Umno was clamouring for the removal of the water rationing in Selangor. Now that it is removed, Najib questions it. The removal of the rationing is nice but I am of the opinion that the rationing should be continued as the dams are not full yet and the dry season is round the corner.
We need to prepare for the worst. We may be faced with a prolonged drought and if we don't have the dams full or as full as possible before the dry season starts, we may have to face a more serious water shortage.
A little bit of inconvenience now will perhaps spare us the agony of being without water. I have experienced the pain when Malacca was without water due to the contamination of the Durian Tunggal dam in 1991.
We need to learn how to use water sparingly. We need to save water. We need to reduce wastage. We need to be responsible.
Sleepy: If water conservation is the issue here, then have a federal law amongst others that states during water rationing periods there will be temporarily closure of commercial car washes. We need solutions, not politics.
Not Smart: After GE13, there has been only one instance when only two items, i.e. kangkung and chicken, had dropped in price. Otherwise, everything has gone up in cost and come mid‑next year, GST will kick in.
Almost all levels of the rakyat are suffering. Selangor with its efficient management and good governance is providing free water to a certain extent. However, the PM is now poking his nose to instigate to withdraw the free water and to further increase tariffs.
The PM blaming the water rationing on free water is utmost rubbish. I wonder if he was in the country during the recent long dry spells, which was the main cause of the rationing.
Asking Selangor to guarantee no future water rationing is akin to asking God’s guarantee for no future dry spells in the state. Mr PM, please talk intelligently and sensibly. Even kampong folks know that if there is no rain there will be no water.
Are you insinuating that Selangorians are of lackadaisical attitude and are not controlling the usage of water?
Boycott MSM: Hello Najib, what about your BR1M, soon the country will become bankrupt Najib.
Well Thats Fantastic: Najib never mentions the high percentage of Syabas' non-revenue water, of course.
CiViC: Seriously? A prime minister saying things like this? Sigh.
ACR: Rubbish. You must have a very low opinion of MCA and Chinese guilds to dish this baseless logic to them. Talking about populist measures, has the country still got money for BR1M?
Lim Chong Leong: Please Najib, show us the statistics on how free water has affected the lack of rainfall?
And so the emperor with no clothes sings and dances in front of the MCA yes-men, all nodding their agreement. A bunch of fools admiring the king of fools. -Mkini
Najib blames rationing on free water policy
Real Truth: Prime Minister Najib Razak should not play politics with
water. There was never free water to the consumers in the first place in Selangor, because the Selangor government paid en bloc for every household the minimum RM10.80 to Syabas and so there is no such thing as free water.This water rationing was due to some shortage owing to dry weather, but mostly due to mismanagement on the part of water concessionaire Syabas and mostly a power play to discredit Selangor government.
The PM must be true to its rakyat.
Multi Racial: Selangor's water subsidy was given even in the previous term. What we have now is a drought and it was the BN government's past mistake for awarding the job to Syabas. The biggest problem is both the federal and state governments are politicising the matter and Syabas, which is supposed to be a professional private company, has also joined in.
Right now, Najib is still politicising. What a shame.
Tak Apa: I can't see Najib's logic. Free water may lead to reduction in revenue for the state but how to relate it to the water shortages due to prolonged dry spell? Furthermore, Mr Najib, we are not kampung folks and hence don't take words at face value.
When you promise no water rationing under BN, please share more on how you will do that? Has the BN government invented a water-making machine that can supply water even though there is no rain at all?
John Low: Is Najib saying when you charge more for water, its rains more often? Or is it because when we pay less, Syabas make less profit, so it's no water for us lah.
Abasir: Najib as usual does not mention the utter disgrace known as the Syabas water distribution system of leaking pipes as uncoordinated and disconnected as everything else in Bolehsville.
Neither does he say anything about the millions paid to the so‑called Syabas CEO for doing nothing. After so many years of a corruption‑ravaged administration in Selangor helmed successively by handpicked on‑the‑take MBs, it's a wonder we have water at all.
Patriot1: Syabas is about the only company in Malaysia where the CEO is still paid millions per year while the company runs into tens of millions in losses every year. Really, Malaysia is Bolehland.
Gerard Lourdesamy: How rich coming from 'Mr Deficit'. Najib has totally mismanaged the public finances to the point that the federal deficit has probably exceeded 55% of the GDP if government guarantees are included.
The frequency with which Parliament votes in supplementary supply bills is a record since independence in 1957. The Umno/BN government has been an abject failure in reducing corruption, wastage and leakages simply because of Umno's entrenched policies of cronyism and patronage.
The water crisis in Selangor is not due to the free water policy under the Pakatan government, but because of decades of failure by Syabas and Puncak Niaga, both owned by the arch‑Umno crony Rozali Ismail who is paid RM450,000 per month for incurring billions in losses, which are underwritten by the Umno/BN federal government to reinvest in the water distribution network, replacing the aging pipes and building more treatment plants.
But Najib should be the last to point figures. How much are you and your wife Rosmah worth?
Fairnessforall: Najib, water is not a luxury, it is a necessity. It was the idiotic BN governments privatising the water companies that led to the water rationing, not the Selangor government's free water programme.
Why should water and electricity be privatised and their CEO's take big fat salaries and yet cannot do the job? What an idiot of the highest order. Get your facts right. Take back the water and electric companies and place them under the government.
Too Lan: Free water is only limited to a small volume, stupid. The problem is why a dam is without water despite it raining every day? Because BN had overdeveloped the areas around the catchment zone.
Ckl0001: I heard this same argument about deterring people from using excessive water by charging more for it, from a layman the other day.
Wow, the PM too thinks like that. How about improving efficiency by reducing the large amount of treated water lost from old pipes, and like Singapore, to also recycle used water, desalinate sea water etc.
PM, you have so many consultants, and what are they paid to do?
Anonymous_3e86: BN/Umno was clamouring for the removal of the water rationing in Selangor. Now that it is removed, Najib questions it. The removal of the rationing is nice but I am of the opinion that the rationing should be continued as the dams are not full yet and the dry season is round the corner.
We need to prepare for the worst. We may be faced with a prolonged drought and if we don't have the dams full or as full as possible before the dry season starts, we may have to face a more serious water shortage.
A little bit of inconvenience now will perhaps spare us the agony of being without water. I have experienced the pain when Malacca was without water due to the contamination of the Durian Tunggal dam in 1991.
We need to learn how to use water sparingly. We need to save water. We need to reduce wastage. We need to be responsible.
Sleepy: If water conservation is the issue here, then have a federal law amongst others that states during water rationing periods there will be temporarily closure of commercial car washes. We need solutions, not politics.
Not Smart: After GE13, there has been only one instance when only two items, i.e. kangkung and chicken, had dropped in price. Otherwise, everything has gone up in cost and come mid‑next year, GST will kick in.
Almost all levels of the rakyat are suffering. Selangor with its efficient management and good governance is providing free water to a certain extent. However, the PM is now poking his nose to instigate to withdraw the free water and to further increase tariffs.
The PM blaming the water rationing on free water is utmost rubbish. I wonder if he was in the country during the recent long dry spells, which was the main cause of the rationing.
Asking Selangor to guarantee no future water rationing is akin to asking God’s guarantee for no future dry spells in the state. Mr PM, please talk intelligently and sensibly. Even kampong folks know that if there is no rain there will be no water.
Are you insinuating that Selangorians are of lackadaisical attitude and are not controlling the usage of water?
Boycott MSM: Hello Najib, what about your BR1M, soon the country will become bankrupt Najib.
Well Thats Fantastic: Najib never mentions the high percentage of Syabas' non-revenue water, of course.
CiViC: Seriously? A prime minister saying things like this? Sigh.
ACR: Rubbish. You must have a very low opinion of MCA and Chinese guilds to dish this baseless logic to them. Talking about populist measures, has the country still got money for BR1M?
Lim Chong Leong: Please Najib, show us the statistics on how free water has affected the lack of rainfall?
And so the emperor with no clothes sings and dances in front of the MCA yes-men, all nodding their agreement. A bunch of fools admiring the king of fools. -Mkini
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