By Edwin Oh Chun Kit
Malaysia is a country blessed with relatively robust water reserves via a wide access to ample rainfall averaging 3,000mm annually and rich surface water resources such as rivers which provides approximately 97% of raw water used in agricultural, domestic and industrial sectors.1 Given this rich supply of liquid gold, one would expect that the mass population would receive uninterrupted access to clean water. However, the country has faced a myriad of water problems over the years which includes the ageing piping system, increasingly worrying pollution affecting our water sources and the rising non-revenue water (NRW) figures at national level.