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PETALING JAYA: The water supply in Selangor is expected to be restored from midnight, Air Selangor said today.
“The first users will have their water supply restored at midnight,” Air Selangor CEO Suhaimi Kamaralzaman said at a press conference.
He said the Sungai Semenyih water treatment plant resumed operations this morning and stabilization of the water treatment process was underway.
He said the clean water would go through a quality test according to the Ministry of Health standard before supplying it to consumers.
He said that the process of restoring the water supply to the affected areas will be divided into three parts.
The water supply for the first group, which consists of 145 affected areas, will be fully restored at 6 pm tomorrow; the second group (91 affected areas), at 6 pm on Thursday; and the third group (38 affected areas), at 6 pm on Friday.
Operations at the Sungai Semenyih and Bukit Tampoi water treatment plants were suspended on Sunday due to contamination.
This left more than 300,000 consumers without water for the second time in a month. At the beginning of last month, contamination in Sungai Gong had caused unscheduled water outages for several days.
The suspension of the two plants meant that Air Selangor could not produce the 602 million liters per day of water needed to supply consumers in the districts of Petaling, Hulu Langat, Kuala Langat and Sepang.
