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Water supplies have been restored to 73 percent of the 1,292 areas in the Klang Valley that were affected by the recent outage, but a handful of areas where supplies are supposed to be restored for today face delays.
According to Air Selangor Sdn Bhd, the delay is due to consumers continuing to store excess water even though the supply has been reconnected in their areas.
In a statement, the water company said supplies have been restored to a total of 948 areas as of 6:30 a.m. today, while another 344 are still in the works.
“For Group 1 areas, where the supply should have been fully restored by midnight on September 7 (last night), 71 areas have yet to fully restore their water supply due to excessive water harvesting activities by of consumers who have started receiving water.
“Air Selangor is taking steps to stabilize the distribution system to restore supply to these areas,” said the statement issued by Air Selangor’s head of corporate communications Elina Baseri.
A schedule issued by the company on Saturday said the water supply process is divided into three groups, where they hope that full supply can be restored in three days, with Group 1 consisting of 667 areas at midnight yesterday, Group 2 (469 areas) at this midnight and the rest in Group 3 at 6 a.m. Wednesday.
According to the statement, of the eight districts that were affected by the outage, Hulu Selangor has recovered 100 percent of its supply, while Kuala Selangor’s supply is almost completely restored (99.25 percent).
The Petaling district supply is 91.78 percent, Gombak (72.99 percent), Kuala Langat (50 percent), Kuala Lumpur (47.37 percent) and Klang / Shah Alam (38.42 percent). hundred).
A total of 1,292 areas in the eight districts were affected by unscheduled water outages since Thursday when four water treatment plants stopped operating after contaminants were detected in the river.
The affected water treatment plants are the Sungai Selangor phase 1, phase 2, phase 3 treatment plants and the Rantau Panjang plant.
The water outage affected nearly 1.2 million consumer accounts.
Since then, authorities have closed a factory in Rawang, which they suspect is responsible for the contamination, and arrested four men.
The pollutants were released in Sungai Gong, which flows into Sungai Sembah and in turn feeds on Sungai Selangor.
