Congratulations to Mr James Gonzales for the very apt comments that he made in today’s NST about water wastages taking place in the country; perhaps not in Seremban now as water is being rationed due to prolonged drought. I like to add that there is a cost to bring clean water to our houses or our workplaces. This cost includes treatment and recticulation which are getting higher and higher. Treating water from our rivers and other water sources which are getting to be more polluted these days is a costly business. Such costly investments either by the government or privatised water companies will eventually lead to higher tariffs. So it is absolutely vital to not waste our treated water as advised by James in his article. I do hope we will be more prudent in using treated water. I would suggest that we do look into harvesting rainwater whenever it is practical to do so and we can use the rainwater for washing cars, watering our gardens and other uses. In this manner our water bills will definite come down instead of up.
Published on Sun, Aug 1st 2010, 10:50