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4.27 billion litres water waste via leaky pipes

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very sim tia seeing water flowing like that, what is a bucket of ALS challenge [:(][:(]

4.27 billion litres water waste via leaky pipes
The Star/Asia News Network Thursday, Sep 04, 2014
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PETALING JAYA - More than 4.27 billion litres of treated water - enough to fill more than 1,700 Olympic-sized swimming pools or keep Perlis going for 53 days - are leaking out of the country's ageing pipe system every day.
Experts warn that more will be wasted unless drastic measures are taken.
If saved, that amount of water could ease stressed water supplies in the Klang Valley, as fears of a shortage and rationing loom dangerously.
According to the National Water Services Commission (SPAN), non-revenue water (NRW) accounted for 36.6 per cent of all water pumped out of treatment plants in 2013, or about 5.69 billion litres a day.
This was higher than 2012, which saw a 36.4 per cent NRW.
Of this amount, at least 75 per cent was due to problems like leaky asbestos-cement pipes and other infrastructure problems.
Association of Water and Energy Research (Awer) president S. Piara­pakaran said that unless the pipes were fixed, more water would be lost even with state governments rushing to build treatment plants to meet a growing local demand.
"When the Langat 2 plant is completed (in 2017), it will pump 1,130 million litres a day (mld). If things don't change, 300mld will be just lost in the system," he told The Star.
While a number of states have seen their NRW levels fall in 2013, others such as Selangor saw more water lost.
Malaysian Water Association (MWA) president Syed Mohamad Adnan Alhabshi said more than RM20bil (S$8 billion) had to be spent to replace the country's 43,890km-long asbestos-cement pipes.
"You need to spend RM500,000 to change 1km of these pipes," he said, adding that state governments did not have the money.
He said water operators were unable to invest in stopping NRW as tariffs were low, giving them low revenue.
This was also reflected in SPAN's statistics - a deficit of RM429mil was incurred by all states combined last year.
MWA council member Hairi Basri said it was not easy to stop NRW as many of the problem pipes were underground.
MWA further estimated that if the country were to keep to SPAN's NRW target of 25 per cent today, the potential revenue operators could have made in 2013 was RM809.4mil.
SPAN executive director Mohd Ridhuan Ismail said combating NRW was more than just fixing or replacing leaky pipes.
Measures, he said, included mapping pipe networks, setting up district metering zones and a constant pressure management and maintenance of the system.
"It is not a one-off effort and the entire exercise requires huge investment," he told The Star.
He said state governments were hampered by low water tariffs and could not invest in NRW reduction measures, adding that human capital in this was also a challenge.
Mohd Ridhuan said many states had migrated their assets over to the Water Asset Management Com-pany (PAAB) to ensure their interests were protected.
He said states that had done so had managed to reduce their NRW substantially.
"SPAN believes that the remaining non-migrated states will be able to improve on their NRW once migrated," he said.

 

 

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Kezg1

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very sim tia seeing water flowing like that, what is a bucket of ALS challenge [:(][:(]

 

 

 

... the same thing... they can't clear a small cannal (jb) for donkeys year and I do not think anyone of those mud in their paliment will do anything..no $$ to kelong..

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Hotshot85

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"It is not a one-off effort and the entire exercise requires huge investment,"

If the money is really used for repairing and maintaining their water system, rather than going into someone's pockets :ph34r:

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Ktglfc

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Waste of water, due to lack of maintenance on the pipes...

If they have solved this, they won't need rationing of water le...

 

Anyway, what can we expect of them?! :D

Lights can go off auto during election, so water can also auto leak off unnoticed lor :D

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Wt_know

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that's called sup sup water ... [thumbsup]

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don't complain so much la

if msia is sibei efficient managed by a govt with no corruption ... spore can jiak sai liao

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msia got land, got water, got resource, got talent (but most talent come to spore liao) ...

but msia govt lao sai ... if govt fix the lao sai ... it will be another awaken mini dragon hor

having say that ... msia govt lao sai probably not going to be fixed for the next 20 years (at least)

 

 

 

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Kusje

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if they buy the treated water from singapore, then they are really wasting a lot of money [rolleyes]

 

What price are they paying again?

 

*Edit* Nvm, it is 50 sen (20 SG cents) per 1000 gal (3785 litres).

 

4.27 bil litres of water per day is only 225k SGD per day.

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What price are they paying again?

 

*Edit* Nvm, it is 50 sen (20 SG cents) per 1000 gal (3785 litres).

 

4.27 bil litres of water per day is only 225k SGD per day.

 

 

i believe 4.27 bil is per year, so it is actually not a lot in term of dollar.

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Hur..... :o

 

You don't read what you posted .... [shocked][shocked]

 

 

it is beyond my imagination of leaking 4 BILLION litre of water a day [:(][:(]

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Gitanic

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i can ask GCT to help fund their repairs.

 

but they must supply us water for the next 300yrs.

 

my brother needs to wash car,my sister needs to wash car,my cousins need to wash cars....... [laugh]

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Kusje

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By the way, Singapore's water consumption - based on 6 mil people and 151L per day (Ministry of Env stats in 2013), is less than 1 bil L per day....

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