Two DAP elected representatives in Selangor today have asked the state government to explain its rationale to not exercise water rationing despite alarming levels of water in two major water dams in the state.
DAP's Kuala Kubu Bharu assemblyperson Lee Kee Hiong said that the Sg Selangor dam's water levels stand at 35 percent, which is even lower than the water levels at the dam when the Pakatan state administration implemented water rationing last March and April.
"The Selangor state government must explain if Selangor will face a water crisis which is bigger than the one it had faced last March and April," she said in a statement.
She said that if the state feels that the current situation does not merit a water rationing, then they ought to explain why water rationing were sanctioned several months ago in similar circumstances.
"Was the water rationing move by the state back then a mistake?" she asked.
Meanwhile, Klang MP Charles Santiago (left) also warned that the state is taking a "gamble" by settling for a lower cut-off water level of just 30 percent instead of the 37 percent they held on to before starting water rationing in March this year.
"The state needs to explain its arbitrariness in determining markers and why a seven percentage drop (in levels) this time around," he asked.
Charles also insisted that the water being pumped from unused ex-mines in the state to fill in for the dropping reserves should be deemed "unsafe" at the moment.
He argued that a test determining if the water was safe for consumption was done during the high season, when possible metal concentration would be low.
Instead, he asked for the tests to be repeated now in the dry season to re-evaluate the metal concentration.
"My biggest fear is that safe drinking water availability is going to be highly limited in the coming weeks," he said in a statement.
DAP's Kuala Kubu Bharu assemblyperson Lee Kee Hiong said that the Sg Selangor dam's water levels stand at 35 percent, which is even lower than the water levels at the dam when the Pakatan state administration implemented water rationing last March and April.
"The Selangor state government must explain if Selangor will face a water crisis which is bigger than the one it had faced last March and April," she said in a statement.
She said that if the state feels that the current situation does not merit a water rationing, then they ought to explain why water rationing were sanctioned several months ago in similar circumstances.
"Was the water rationing move by the state back then a mistake?" she asked.Meanwhile, Klang MP Charles Santiago (left) also warned that the state is taking a "gamble" by settling for a lower cut-off water level of just 30 percent instead of the 37 percent they held on to before starting water rationing in March this year.
"The state needs to explain its arbitrariness in determining markers and why a seven percentage drop (in levels) this time around," he asked.
Charles also insisted that the water being pumped from unused ex-mines in the state to fill in for the dropping reserves should be deemed "unsafe" at the moment.
He argued that a test determining if the water was safe for consumption was done during the high season, when possible metal concentration would be low.
Instead, he asked for the tests to be repeated now in the dry season to re-evaluate the metal concentration.
"My biggest fear is that safe drinking water availability is going to be highly limited in the coming weeks," he said in a statement.
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