Selangor's "manufactured water crisis" as Khalid steps in...


NONESelangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim has voiced that the state is to practice the right to take over the operations of state H2O concessionaire Syabas.

This is because it doubts the veracity of the explain behind thewater rationingexercisethat Syabas voiced on Saturday.

All seven dams in the state have been not usually full to capacity, but overflowing, Khalid told the press discussion in Shah Alam today.

"The state supervision has decided to make use of the energy underneath Clause 32 of the benefaction agreement to notify the sovereign supervision that you will step into Syabas' operations," he said.

It has sent the notice to the sovereign supervision which, as the celebration to the tripartite agreement, must give the nod, as well as to the inhabitant H2O services commission Span.

Khalid also pronounced the state government's advisors have indicated that the H2O necessity explain might have been manufactured.



water check 110608He further highlighted the fact that Syabas:

- has unsuccessful to revoke non-revenue H2O below the contractual starting point of twenty percent;

- owes scarcely RM3 billion to the H2O diagnosis trickery operators; and

- has unsuccessful to invest in facilities as well as infrastructure to fulfill the shortcoming of provision competent H2O to the state

It was Syabas' disaster to deliver on the contractual responsibilities, as well as the likelihood of deception, that has stirred the state supervision to act, Khalid explained.

Asked what would occur if the sovereign supervision objects to the takeover, Khalid pronounced the state supervision will take the matter to court.

Oversight cabinet set up

Pending the response of the sovereign supervision as well as Span, Khalid voiced the creation of the cabinet to manage Syabas operations.


NONEHe pronounced Syabas will have to table daily reports to state secretary Mohamed Khusrin Munawi(left)and state H2O regulator Nordin Sulaiman, who is also State Water Management Board chief.

Water consortium Abbas will also be roped into the cabinet along with review firms, Halcroo, Suez as well as Wessex Water, that will review as well as determine Syabas' reports.


On Saturday, Syabas had voiced ! that it will apply to Span to control evident H2O rationing in Kuala Lumpur, Hulu Langat as well as Klang.

Syabas CEO Ruslan Hassan pronounced this was needed as reserves at diagnosis plants have been now down to about 2 percent compared to the twenty percent required to maintain! compete nt supply.

The company, that had been appointed by the BN-led state government, has been intent in an open tussle with the current Selangor supervision over H2O supply operations.

Selangor has claimed it is the victim of the unilateral stipulate as well as the antagonistic BN-linked contractor.

The company, meanwhile, has accused the state of preventing it from augmenting the H2O tariff, that has stopped it from improving the services.-malaysiakini




Catuan Air yang meragukan & Khalid Ibrahim mahu ambil alih operasi SYABAS...

Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim mengumumkan bahawa kerajaan negeri itu mahu melaksanakan haknya untuk mengambil alih operasi syarikat pemegang konsesi air negeri - Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (SYABAS).

Katanya, ini kerana kerajaan Selangor meragui pengumuman cadangan catuan air oleh SYABAS kerana pengawal selia air negeri dan ahli lembaga pengarah SYABAS tidak dimaklumkan.

Bercakap dalam satu sidang akhbar hari ini, Khalid berkata, tujuh empangan negeri di seluruh Selangor mempunyai kapaisiti air yang cukup dan melimpah.

Berikutan itu, katanya, kerajaan negeri telah membuat keputusan mengunakan kuasa di bawah Klausa 32 dalam perjanjian konsesi untuk memberi notis kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk Kerajaan Negeri "step-in" dalam operasi ! SYABAS.< /span>

Sementara itu, dalam satu kenyataan, Khalid menjelaskan, bagi menjaga kepentingan rakyat Selangor, kerajaan negeri telah meminta Datuk Setiausaha kerajaan negeri bersama pengawal seelia air negeri untuk memantau perkhidmatan air oleh SYABAS.

Jawatankuasa tersebut, katanya, akan minta SYABAS memberi laporan harian untuk menerangkan kedudukan air semasa.

Sementara itu, kata Khalid lagi, Konsortium ABASS juga akan diminta menyertai jawatakuasa ini yang mana syarikat itu akan memanggil pakar bebas yang berpengalaman semasa krisis air 1998 untuk memantau kesahihan laporan dan maklumat oleh SYABAS.

"Perlu ditekan di sini, keadaaan sekarang tidak boleh disamakan dengan krisis air pada 1998 kerana tujuh empangan negeri di seluruh Selangor mempunyai kapaisiti air yang cukup dan melimpah.

"Kerajaan negeri menggesa supaya proses penstrukturan semula industri air diteruskan dengan segera kerana SYABAS jelas tidak berkemampuan untuk memberi perkhidmatan air yang baik kepada pengguna,&q! uot; kat the Khalid.

Ini, tambahnya, jelas ditunjukkan apabila SYABAS setakat bulan April 2012, mempunyai tanggungan jumlah tertunggak kepada user rawatan air dianggarkan sebanyak RM2.8 billion.

"SYABAS juga gagal menurunkan kadar air tidak terhasil (non-revenue water) kepada 20%. Tambah pula, laporan awal review mendapati SYABAS tidak melaksanakan kerja-kerja capex (capital expenditure) mereka dengan baik," kata Khalid lagi.

Berdasarkan alasan di atas, katanya, maka kerajaan negeri telah sebanyak dua kali menghantar surat kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan pada nineteen Disember 2008 dan twenty-one Januari 2011 untuk membatalkan perjanjian konsesi tersebut.

"Oleh kerana Kerajaan Persekutuan tidak memberi sebarang maklum balas terhadap surat-surat tersebut, kerajaan negeri telah membuat keputusan mengunakan kuasa di bawah Klausa 32 dalam perjanjian konsesi untuk memberi notis kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk Kerajaan Ne! geri &qu ot;step-in" dalam operasi SYABAS.

"Kerajaan negeri juga akan meneruskan usaha mencari sumber air alternatif seperti air bawah tanah dan menambah baik kapisiti loji rawatan air sedia ada dengan mengguna pakai teknologi terkini," katanya.-malaysiakini



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