COMMENT | Water games: Sucker punch lands on the consumer

COMMENT | There was a flurry of activities last night. Politicians, corporate bigwigs and engineers were making an effort in playing the regular match of finger-pointing a’la fault finding. It was nothing new, and at the rate it is happening, they could even make it a monthly affair.

If previously it was some unscrupulous factories taking a shortcut, it now (allegedly) involves a government-owned company, and one would have thought the stakes would be higher. But no. Unlike directors of factories who were detained and taken to court for remand orders, the rules of the match changed this time – much more lenient in many ways.

The gloves came off at the sitting of the Selangor State Assembly yesterday, when the Tourism, Environment, Green Technology and Orang Asli Affairs Committee chairperson landed the first punch. He told Bukit Lanjan assemblywoman Elizabeth Wong that pollution to Air Selangor’s water treatment plants originated from an Indah Water (IWK) treatment plant in Rawang,

Then the Selangor Water Management Authority (Luas) landed the second...