Months of intermittent water supply to 6.7 million people in the Klang Valley, Putrajaya and Selangor will come to an end tonight, as the water rationing exercise affecting Selangor will finally be discontinued.
The announcement was made by National Water Management Commission (SPAN) chairman Datuk Ismail Kasim, according to a report by Malaysiakini.
Water rationing was imposed after an unusually severe dry season caused Selangor’s water supply to dwindle to alarming levels. The Sungai Selangor dam, which supplies the raw water for 60% of the state’s users, has plunged below the critical 40% mark over the past several weeks.
“Even if the levels at the Sungai Selangor dam have yet to reach 50 per cent, the government is ready to rescind the scheduled water rationing based on its contingency plan and the availability of raw water in the river after several days of rain,” The Malay Mail Online reports SPAN chief executive Datuk Teo Yen Hua as saying.
This tallies with Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim’s earlier statements saying his administration was mulling the discontinuation of Stages 1, 3 and 4 of the water rationing exercise in the state, and the Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry’s acknowledgment of having received an application from Khalid’s administration to end rationing.
Of course, people on social media just had to celebrate the only way they knew how:
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