Water, water, each where,
And all a boards did shrink;
Water, water, each where,
Nor any dump to drink.
And all a boards did shrink;
Water, water, each where,
Nor any dump to drink.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
COMMENTHave you ever been made to buy something you didn't need?
Or worse, have you been deceived, intimidated as well as bullied in to creation an wholly unnecessary, overpriced purchase?
It would appear which this is what you have been confronting with Syabas, this "water crisis" it keeps removing vehement about.
However, if you inspect a tough facts closely, you will see which a usually predicament you have been confronting is an all as well informed predicament of crime as well as cronyism - centred firmly around a RM8.65 billion Langat 2 Water Treatment Plant.
Do you unequivocally need a Langat 2 plant?
We all know politicians have use of taxpayer-funded megaprojects to have money. The bigger a megaproject, a bigger a kickbacks - as well as RM8.65 billion is plenty big.
With which many income during stake, a final thing 'well-connected' people caring about is either a plan is essentially needed, or either it truly benefits a rakyat or not.
The Selangor supervision is all for preventing this RM8.65 billion gravy sight from riding out, as well as a in front of is simple: there is plenty of H2O in Selangor, as well as if there is any necessity during all, it is due to failure, or worse, upon a partial of Syabas.
Here's what Syabas doesn't wish you to know about this H2O "crisis": I! t's no t about how many tender H2O there is (since a dams in Selangor have been all cl! early fu ll); it's about how Syabas is failing dramatically to well convert enough of which tender H2O in to beverage water.
(Technically speaking, a main association obliged for diagnosis of H2O is Puncak Niaga, which in spin owns 70 percent of Syabas. Both companies have been in essence run by a same people. For a purpose of this article, "Syabas" refers to both Puncak Niaga as well as Syabas.)
Not all a tender H2O which goes in to a H2O diagnosis plant becomes beverage H2O - which is, H2O deemed fit to run in a taps during home. The technical tenure for a volume of tender H2O which is squandered due to inefficiencies in a H2O diagnosis plant is called "non-revenue water" or NRW.
32pct of H2O constructed by Syabas is wasted
Syabas' turn of NRW is 32 percent. This equates to which a whopping one-third of a tender H2O which enters a Syabas H2O diagnosis plant goes wholly to waste.
Syabas must be congratulated here, for next in wasting some-more H2O than Dhaka, Bangladesh, where a NRW is usually twenty-nine percent. Eastern Manila managed to move down a NRW from 63 percent in 1997 to 11 percent in 2010.
More grown nations have even revoke levels of NRW - Germany's NRW is usually seven percent, whilst a Netherlands as well as Denmark have achieved NRW levels of 6 percent.
Perhaps this can be attributed to a actuality which they have been advanced, grown Western democracies? Oh, wait for for a minute, Singapore's NRW is 5 percent.
It looks similar to underneath Syabas' brilliant management, you have managed to rubbish 6 times some-more H2O than a neighbour to a south whom you similar to so many to have fun of. Thank you, Syabas!
There is additionally speak which Syabas is not since enough income to improve a services. However, a subject is, would you give some-more income to a association which demonstrates zero ability to put which income to great use, as well as in actuality squandered divided all a income which has already been since to ! it?
< br>Quite simply put, all you need to do to safeguard a enough H2O supply for a Klang Valley is to drastically revoke a volume of NRW. For that, you don't need a RM8.65 billion H2O diagnosis plant, or to chuck income during a complaint - you just need cleaner, better managers.
Is Syabas branch off a taps?
It's little wonder which Syabas has never had many inducement to improve a efficiency or peculiarity of a use - for it does not have any competition.
This elementary actuality has rendered many an attention in Malaysia utterly defunct. Automobiles, airlines, telecommunications as well as energy generation have been all industries where cronies get rich, as well as Malaysians pay tall prices for crap quality.
A corner similar to Syabas is able to take this diversion a singular step further. When you have finish corner over a H2O industry, you don't have to wait for for for an tangible H2O predicament to justify an RM8.65 billion white elephant megaproject. Even in a midst of heavy rain each singular day, all you need to do is spin off a taps, as well as voila - "water crisis".
I consider we've all noticed th! e increa sed magnitude of H2O cuts in a Klang Valley recently. A elementary subject remains: have been a taps incited off because of a H2O shortage? Or because a little people wish you to consider there's a H2O shortage?
Is this all to justify a RM8.65 billion H2O diagnosis plant which no a singular needs - a plant which might have a couple of propitious people intensely rich, whilst impoverishing a rest of a nation?
Is Syabas melancholy us?
One of a 'best' quotes you have review throughout this saga comes from Syabas technical services executive director V Subramaniam, maybe a minor pawn sent forth to spew such brilliant statements as:
"The H2O predicament during present is a result of a shortfall in treated H2O for placement caused by a warding off of a state supervision to emanate a development order for building a whol! e of a L angat 2 diagnosis plant."
Does Syabas take us for dummies?
According to this logic, if a Selangor supervision approves a building a whole of Langat 2 today (a plan which will take years to complete), then a H2O predicament will disappear tomorrow.
Sounds a little suspicious?
Perhaps Subramaniam's statement is technically correct, in which a state government's warding off has indeed precipitated a 'water shortage' - solely which he is wordless upon either a pronounced H2O necessity is healthy - or made by unethical people to grasp even some-more unethical ends.
Who is politicising a H2O problem? There ! should b e a law opposite this arrange of thing.
Oh, wait. There is this thing called a Water Services Industry Act (WSIA), which was upheld by a BN-dominated Parliament in 2006.
This law supposing for a de-privatisation of a H2O attention as well as a lapse to a respective state governments, for privatisation had clearly proven to be a disastrous disaster across a board.
The H2O industries of BN-led (for now) Malacca as well as Johor were successfully deprivatised following a gazetting of a WSIA. But what happened to Selangor post-2008?
Both sides similar to to credit each alternative of 'politicising' a H2O problem, but when a facts uncover which a sovereign supervision authorised deprivatisation in BN-held states whilst preventing it in Selangor, a law becomes clear to all.
Let's not forget which Syabas is run by Rozali Ismail, a ready-to-run-for-Parliament Selangor Umno treasurer who, despite creating a spectacular disaster of Syabas as well as being accused of using millions of Syabas' funds to buy pipes from his own association in Indonesia, is still paid a income of RM425,000 a month as CEO.
The Selangor state supervision has openly stated which it skeleton to slash a monthly income for this post by 90 percent.
While Syabas is dead set upon exponential increases of up to 75 percent upon H2O tariffs, S! elangor has affianced to cap any tariff increases to 12 percent.
So, who is seeking out for a rakyat, as well as who is seeking out for themselves?
BN ! plunderi ng prior to an unavoidable defeat?
Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim is a male many penetrating upon a de-privatisation of a Selangor H2O attention as well as a takeover of Syabas by a state government.
This is a male who increased a cash reserves of a Selangor supervision five-fold from RM400 million in 2008 to RM2.1 billion in 2012.
Under Umno as well as Najib Abdul Razak, a sovereign debt - a debt a young kids as well as grandchildren will have to pay - has since a year 2007 nearly doubled to RM421 billion this year.
Who do you consider is better suited to run a H2O industry?
Are you starting to allow people who have been bringing a nation to a edge of a genuine - not made - mercantile predicament to bully us in to balance a check for a RM8.65 billion megaproject which nobody needs?
Are these tall jinks a ultimate try - along with FVG, George Kent as well as a innumerable new spending initiatives a budding apportion has not long ago announced - to bleed a nation's coffers utterly dry for personal gain prior to finishing a full tenure in bureau in 2013?
It seems a BN has critical fears of losing power, as well as is trying to take out as many as it can prior to carrying to face an angry citizens next year. If a BN was assured of a victory, surely a ubiquitous election would have been hold by now.
In any case, a unethical between us have been welcome to fool around their games.
Turning off a taps as well as replacing a flow of H2O with a flow of painfully fallacious arguments is reduction expected to press! ure a state supervision to leave a interests of a rakyat, as well as some-more expected to point a finger back during those truly obliged for scaremongering as well as criminal mismanagement.
Or worse, have you been deceived, intimidated as well as bullied in to creation an wholly unnecessary, overpriced purchase?
It would appear which this is what you have been confronting with Syabas, this "water crisis" it keeps removing vehement about.
However, if you inspect a tough facts closely, you will see which a usually predicament you have been confronting is an all as well informed predicament of crime as well as cronyism - centred firmly around a RM8.65 billion Langat 2 Water Treatment Plant.
Do you unequivocally need a Langat 2 plant?
We all know politicians have use of taxpayer-funded megaprojects to have money. The bigger a megaproject, a bigger a kickbacks - as well as RM8.65 billion is plenty big.
With which many income during stake, a final thing 'well-connected' people caring about is either a plan is essentially needed, or either it truly benefits a rakyat or not.
The Selangor supervision is all for preventing this RM8.65 billion gravy sight from riding out, as well as a in front of is simple: there is plenty of H2O in Selangor, as well as if there is any necessity during all, it is due to failure, or worse, upon a partial of Syabas.
Here's what Syabas doesn't wish you to know about this H2O "crisis": I! t's no t about how many tender H2O there is (since a dams in Selangor have been all cl! early fu ll); it's about how Syabas is failing dramatically to well convert enough of which tender H2O in to beverage water.(Technically speaking, a main association obliged for diagnosis of H2O is Puncak Niaga, which in spin owns 70 percent of Syabas. Both companies have been in essence run by a same people. For a purpose of this article, "Syabas" refers to both Puncak Niaga as well as Syabas.)
Not all a tender H2O which goes in to a H2O diagnosis plant becomes beverage H2O - which is, H2O deemed fit to run in a taps during home. The technical tenure for a volume of tender H2O which is squandered due to inefficiencies in a H2O diagnosis plant is called "non-revenue water" or NRW.
32pct of H2O constructed by Syabas is wasted
Syabas' turn of NRW is 32 percent. This equates to which a whopping one-third of a tender H2O which enters a Syabas H2O diagnosis plant goes wholly to waste.
Syabas must be congratulated here, for next in wasting some-more H2O than Dhaka, Bangladesh, where a NRW is usually twenty-nine percent. Eastern Manila managed to move down a NRW from 63 percent in 1997 to 11 percent in 2010.
More grown nations have even revoke levels of NRW - Germany's NRW is usually seven percent, whilst a Netherlands as well as Denmark have achieved NRW levels of 6 percent.
Perhaps this can be attributed to a actuality which they have been advanced, grown Western democracies? Oh, wait for for a minute, Singapore's NRW is 5 percent.
It looks similar to underneath Syabas' brilliant management, you have managed to rubbish 6 times some-more H2O than a neighbour to a south whom you similar to so many to have fun of. Thank you, Syabas!
There is additionally speak which Syabas is not since enough income to improve a services. However, a subject is, would you give some-more income to a association which demonstrates zero ability to put which income to great use, as well as in actuality squandered divided all a income which has already been since to ! it?
< br>Quite simply put, all you need to do to safeguard a enough H2O supply for a Klang Valley is to drastically revoke a volume of NRW. For that, you don't need a RM8.65 billion H2O diagnosis plant, or to chuck income during a complaint - you just need cleaner, better managers.
Is Syabas branch off a taps?
It's little wonder which Syabas has never had many inducement to improve a efficiency or peculiarity of a use - for it does not have any competition.
This elementary actuality has rendered many an attention in Malaysia utterly defunct. Automobiles, airlines, telecommunications as well as energy generation have been all industries where cronies get rich, as well as Malaysians pay tall prices for crap quality.
A corner similar to Syabas is able to take this diversion a singular step further. When you have finish corner over a H2O industry, you don't have to wait for for for an tangible H2O predicament to justify an RM8.65 billion white elephant megaproject. Even in a midst of heavy rain each singular day, all you need to do is spin off a taps, as well as voila - "water crisis".
I consider we've all noticed th! e increa sed magnitude of H2O cuts in a Klang Valley recently. A elementary subject remains: have been a taps incited off because of a H2O shortage? Or because a little people wish you to consider there's a H2O shortage?
Is this all to justify a RM8.65 billion H2O diagnosis plant which no a singular needs - a plant which might have a couple of propitious people intensely rich, whilst impoverishing a rest of a nation?
Is Syabas melancholy us?
One of a 'best' quotes you have review throughout this saga comes from Syabas technical services executive director V Subramaniam, maybe a minor pawn sent forth to spew such brilliant statements as:
"The H2O predicament during present is a result of a shortfall in treated H2O for placement caused by a warding off of a state supervision to emanate a development order for building a whol! e of a L angat 2 diagnosis plant."
Does Syabas take us for dummies?
According to this logic, if a Selangor supervision approves a building a whole of Langat 2 today (a plan which will take years to complete), then a H2O predicament will disappear tomorrow.
Sounds a little suspicious?
Perhaps Subramaniam's statement is technically correct, in which a state government's warding off has indeed precipitated a 'water shortage' - solely which he is wordless upon either a pronounced H2O necessity is healthy - or made by unethical people to grasp even some-more unethical ends.
Who is politicising a H2O problem? There ! should b e a law opposite this arrange of thing.
Oh, wait. There is this thing called a Water Services Industry Act (WSIA), which was upheld by a BN-dominated Parliament in 2006.
This law supposing for a de-privatisation of a H2O attention as well as a lapse to a respective state governments, for privatisation had clearly proven to be a disastrous disaster across a board.
The H2O industries of BN-led (for now) Malacca as well as Johor were successfully deprivatised following a gazetting of a WSIA. But what happened to Selangor post-2008?
Both sides similar to to credit each alternative of 'politicising' a H2O problem, but when a facts uncover which a sovereign supervision authorised deprivatisation in BN-held states whilst preventing it in Selangor, a law becomes clear to all.
Let's not forget which Syabas is run by Rozali Ismail, a ready-to-run-for-Parliament Selangor Umno treasurer who, despite creating a spectacular disaster of Syabas as well as being accused of using millions of Syabas' funds to buy pipes from his own association in Indonesia, is still paid a income of RM425,000 a month as CEO.
The Selangor state supervision has openly stated which it skeleton to slash a monthly income for this post by 90 percent.
While Syabas is dead set upon exponential increases of up to 75 percent upon H2O tariffs, S! elangor has affianced to cap any tariff increases to 12 percent.
So, who is seeking out for a rakyat, as well as who is seeking out for themselves?
BN ! plunderi ng prior to an unavoidable defeat?
Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim is a male many penetrating upon a de-privatisation of a Selangor H2O attention as well as a takeover of Syabas by a state government.
This is a male who increased a cash reserves of a Selangor supervision five-fold from RM400 million in 2008 to RM2.1 billion in 2012.
Under Umno as well as Najib Abdul Razak, a sovereign debt - a debt a young kids as well as grandchildren will have to pay - has since a year 2007 nearly doubled to RM421 billion this year.
Who do you consider is better suited to run a H2O industry?
Are you starting to allow people who have been bringing a nation to a edge of a genuine - not made - mercantile predicament to bully us in to balance a check for a RM8.65 billion megaproject which nobody needs?
Are these tall jinks a ultimate try - along with FVG, George Kent as well as a innumerable new spending initiatives a budding apportion has not long ago announced - to bleed a nation's coffers utterly dry for personal gain prior to finishing a full tenure in bureau in 2013?
It seems a BN has critical fears of losing power, as well as is trying to take out as many as it can prior to carrying to face an angry citizens next year. If a BN was assured of a victory, surely a ubiquitous election would have been hold by now.
In any case, a unethical between us have been welcome to fool around their games.
Turning off a taps as well as replacing a flow of H2O with a flow of painfully fallacious arguments is reduction expected to press! ure a state supervision to leave a interests of a rakyat, as well as some-more expected to point a finger back during those truly obliged for scaremongering as well as criminal mismanagement.
NATHANIEL TAN works as a consultant to a Sela! ngor sta te government.
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