Malaysia households face water woes!! Bring your pails for water

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Kuala Lumpur - Pails and water containers have been selling like hot cakes, especially after Malaysia said it will expand water rationing in and around its capital, in a move affecting millions as drought continues to scorch the region.
The national water commission said last Friday that over 300,000 households in Kuala Lumpur and nearby Selangor will experience cuts for the whole of this month, after a two-month dry spell depleted reservoirs.
Some 431,617 households and businesses in the districts of Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Klang, Shah Alam, Kuala Selangor and Hulu Selangor will be affected. They will have water for 41 hours, after which there will be no supply for 55 hours.
TTS Distribution, a convenience store in Taman OUG, said people were coming from as far as Subang and Klang to buy water containers to store water.
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Our singapore govt is well planned with desalination plants and new water.

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More Malaysia households face water woes; Expanded water rationing will affect over 300,000 households in KL and Selangor this month
2014-03-01
Kuala Lumpur - Pails and water containers have been selling like hot cakes, especially after Malaysia said it will expand water rationing in and around its capital, in a move affecting millions as drought continues to scorch the region.
The national water commission said last Friday that over 300,000 households in Kuala Lumpur and nearby Selangor will experience cuts for the whole of this month, after a two-month dry spell depleted reservoirs.
Some 431,617 households and businesses in the districts of Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Klang, Shah Alam, Kuala Selangor and Hulu Selangor will be affected. They will have water for 41 hours, after which there will be no supply for 55 hours.
TTS Distribution, a convenience store in Taman OUG, said people were coming from as far as Subang and Klang to buy water containers to store water.
"Previously, we re-stocked about a dozen containers a week. Now, we're selling six to seven dozen a day," business owner Lim Say Wei, 24, told The Star yesterday.
"But we are not increasing prices because we are long-established in the business," he added. The best-selling items were the 172.7-litre containers priced at RM80 (S$30) each, he said.
"I have customers telling me that in Petaling Jaya, the price for these containers had gone up to RM135," he said.
Last Friday, National Water Services Commission chairman Ismail Kassim said rationing had to be expanded because of the reduced amount of water released from the Selangor and Klang Gate dams. The level at the Selangor dam is 47.5 per cent, while at the Klang Gates, it is 54 per cent, both of which are deemed critical.
He said that in Johor, residents in the Kluang district would continue to face rationing. Some 51,036 households in the district started getting two days of water supply, followed by two days of dry taps, from yesterday. Before this, they had two days of supply followed by one day of no water.
Malaysia tends to experience dry weather early in the year, but the current spell has been unusually long.
Singapore, which had a record 27 consecutive days without rain from Jan 13, is preparing for the dry spell to persist into the first half of this month.
The Star/ANN, AFP

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.... They will have water for 41 hours, after which there will be no supply for 55 hours.
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will we see condos collapsing in malaysia?
if everybody in the condo were to store enough water for 55 hours.

personally, i prefer landed with swimming pool, the swimming pool can act as water storage.

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will we see condos collapsing in malaysia?
if everybody in the condo were to store enough water for 55 hours (almost 5 days).

personally, i prefer landed with swimming pool, the swimming pool can act as water storage.

Swimming pool as storage? are you out of mind.Need such big space.

LOL

Any update from your post at duo residence ? how many units you bought?

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will we see condos collapsing in malaysia?
if everybody in the condo were to store enough water for 55 hours.

personally, i prefer landed with swimming pool, the swimming pool can act as water storage.



In Malaysia when u buy condo must buy 2 units. One to live one to store water.