tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30873712011-08-31T05:45:52.285-07:00FIRST COMMODITYWater is the most expensive commodity if you don't have it. We only know its true value when our wells ( pipes) run dry...Btw,it happened to me a few times in Kuala Lumpur.Berismannoreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-1130798601868841722005-10-31T14:37:00.000-08:002005-10-31T14:43:21.870-08:00New design by BloggerToday,I changed this blog using a nice new template from Blogger.It has been more than a year since I last updated this blog.Actually,I have been blogging almost daily from my 'general' blog called The Reader. This blog is dedicated to any technical matters on water.Until and unless SPAN is full operational,our water industry shall remain where it is.Lately, I heard Parliament has passed the Berismannoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-1089517572740826772004-07-10T20:41:00.000-07:002004-07-10T20:46:12.740-07:00Bon for WaterBillions of ringgit is required to finance our water projects.The Minister is thinking aloud to explore bon market to source for fund.
Water capex is a long term investment;hence it needs long term finance at lower coupun rate. I hope the financial wizards will engineer a financial package all parties win i.e the government, the water operator and the consumers.Berismannoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-1089356766803427612004-07-09T00:03:00.000-07:002004-07-10T20:40:18.860-07:00Round Table DiscussionMWA is going to have a round table discussion on 26/7/04 ON WATER
SERVICES IN A REGULATED ENVIRONMENT.
InsyaAllah, I will be there.Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-1088217741096829742004-06-25T19:41:00.000-07:002004-06-25T19:42:21.096-07:00Another not so good news about water:
The Star Online > Nation
Saturday June 26, 2004
States on water alert as dry spell sets in
Water cycle Website
PETALING JAYA: The water level at dams nationwide is dipping and the weatherman predicts a drought that will drag until September.
Several state water authorities are already on alert, with many of them advising consumers to use water Berismannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-1088026411923168622004-06-23T14:31:00.000-07:002004-06-23T14:33:31.923-07:00News:
Penang to review water tariffs
By: (Wed, 23 Jun 2004)
PENANG: Penang Water Supply Corporation is reviewing its water tariffs, currently the lowest in the country.
Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon, who is the chairman of PBA Holdings, said the last review was conducted in 2000.
He said a new review was necessary owing to the rising costs in managing water supply.
Koh said one wayBerismannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-1087944324410366742004-06-22T15:40:00.000-07:002004-06-22T15:45:24.410-07:00It has been more than a year I have not written anything here. What triggers me to write again is that for the last two weeks,the people of Cameron Highland is HIGH AND DRY-no water. Water is supplied by tankers.
What worries me more is that the Interbasin Water Transfer project from Pahang to Selangor has yet to take off on the ground. I expected delay of at least three years- meaning Klang Berismannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-915754232003-03-28T16:09:00.000-08:002003-03-28T16:09:55.200-08:00I am retiring from Malaysian Water Association council as from next month.However, I shall remain as ordinary member.Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-915753562003-03-28T16:07:00.000-08:002003-03-28T16:07:59.700-08:00Basra is cut off from water supply after US invaded Iraq.Water is a very good weapon to kill people slowly .....and blame on someone else.Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-867734832002-12-31T20:23:00.000-08:002002-12-31T20:23:37.420-08:00Congratulations to my friend at PUAS who recently was awarded a Dato'ship. Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-824396402002-10-02T16:37:00.000-07:002002-10-02T16:37:01.893-07:00Yes, provided he has an account with Maybank.
TQ
Suhaimi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohd Adib"
To:
Sent: Thursday,26 September ,2002 1:57 PM
Subject: Bil Air
> Dear Suhaimi,
>
> My friends asked me whether he can pay PUAS via Manybank2U?
>
> ---Adib
Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-821486202002-09-26T08:31:00.000-07:002002-09-26T08:31:58.703-07:00Madolah dan sdaraku,
I am not suprised that PUAS Bhd. is taking action on errant water consumers in Klang Valley.The amount is rather staggering-RM 232million! That is only the tip of the iceberg. Every year, it was reported that the state government has to inject RM 1 billion. More money will be needed soon to pay for buying water from Splash!Puncak Niaga claimed that PUAS owed them RM 850m. Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-112783932002-03-30T06:01:00.000-08:002002-03-30T06:01:42.266-08:00Last week I attended the Water 2002 Expo at the MINES. Heard a lot of noises about water issues due to recent water shortages in the middle of the month.Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-82418812001-12-28T16:13:00.000-08:002001-12-28T16:13:12.020-08:00Rain has created havocs in the east coast states and Johor from the middle of Dec until to-day. Now, we have too much water instead of no water to drink.
Water availability is not about having good rainfall,lakes an rivers. It is more about MANAGEMENT of our water resources....Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-72622872001-11-20T02:39:00.000-08:002001-11-20T02:39:12.940-08:00This morning, I have two hrs discussion on the formulation of Water Leaders Charter for the Developing countries with my MWA President and a few council members. IMHO, water is just like indepencence. Once it is there, you almost take it for granted. A lot of efforts stilll need to be done to ensure our granchildren will have access to water in the next 50 years.Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-70563852001-11-12T03:57:00.000-08:002001-11-12T03:57:41.090-08:00To-day I attended a national water seminar on Regulation at Pan pacific Hotel .The key note address was given by Sir Ian Byatt,ex-DG of OfWat ,UK.Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-69100382001-11-06T06:00:00.000-08:002001-11-06T06:00:50.976-08:00ON RYAN WELL:
Hello,I am Adib Noh from Malaysia. Btw, I am a 49 years old water engineer
and a council member of Malaysian Water Association.I read the article about
your work in Reader's Digest and I am very impressed by what you had
done.Congratulations Ryan!
During the last council meeting,I showed your picture and the well in Africa
to my fellow coucil members about your good deeds.Also I Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-67536422001-10-31T02:11:00.000-08:002001-10-31T02:11:23.910-08:00WATER REGULATORS SEMINAR
Below is a letter of invitation from a friend.I will be attending this seminar:
Dear all.
You might have been informed earlier that MWA is organising a seminar on
Water Regulation, on Nov 12 2001 at Pan Pacific Hotel. Realising urgent
needs for strong regulatory body in this country for the sustainable
development in developing country of ours, I call for last Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-67127512001-10-29T15:38:00.000-08:002001-10-29T15:38:12.640-08:00Floods and water shortages are the prices we are now paying for our mistakes in managing water. Either we paid attentions and spent some money earlier to water related issues, we have to pay for it. Now is the paying time!!! If we contnue our 'bad' behaviour, we are going to pay agaian and again....
What the water is telling us is this: DON'T EVER MESS UP WITH ME. YOU GONNA HAVE TO PAY FOR ITBerismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-67120762001-10-29T15:10:00.000-08:002001-10-29T15:10:25.076-08:00KUALA LUMPUR 29 Okt. - Hujan lebat lebih lima jam di Kuala Lumpur menyebabkan beberapa kawasan dinaiki air, semalam.
Kejadian banjir yang dianggap antara yang terburuk di ibu negara pada tahun ini menyebabkan banyak kerugian harta benda.
Ia juga memaksa polis menutup beberapa jalan yang dinaiki air sehingga menyebabkan masalah kesesakan lalu lintas yang teruk selama hampir tiga jam selepas Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-67120422001-10-29T15:09:00.000-08:002001-10-29T15:09:24.593-08:00Kerajaan sedia swastakan IWK - PM
KUALA LUMPUR 29 Okt. - Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad berkata, kerajaan sedia menswastakan semula Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) Sdn. Bhd., dengan syarat pihak swasta yang berminat mesti melabur di dalam syarikat itu.
Menurut Dr. Mahathir, pihak swasta yang terlibat tidak boleh mengharapkan bantuan kerajaan kerana kos menguruskan perkhidmatan Berismannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-67117422001-10-29T14:58:00.000-08:002001-10-29T14:58:18.703-08:00Negara membangun harus ada dasar bolehkan pengurusan air secara berkesan
KUALA LUMPUR 29 Okt. - Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad berkata, negara-negara membangun harus mempunyai suatu dasar untuk membolehkan peraturan dan pengurusan sumber air ditadbir secara berkesan.
Dalam hal ini, beliau berpendapat sebuah badan yang mewakili negara-negara membangun perlu diwujudkan untuk Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-66964862001-10-29T01:35:00.000-08:002001-10-29T01:35:05.820-08:00To-day I attended the opening ceremony of IWA Water and Waste Water Management Seminar at PWTC. It was quite well attended. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time our PM officiated such a function.
I hope this will be a new beginning to water industry taking a national stage. Honestly, we need to do a lot to our water industry to ensure that it is properly planned, utilised and Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-51183252001-08-15T21:48:00.000-07:002001-08-15T21:48:53.430-07:00 Cameron Highlands Water Shortage?
The NST editor is talking about it to-day and the Minister of Science and Environment also talked about it in the press. This reminds me some years ago when our PM Dr Mahathir was very unhappy about a 'botak'( bald) hill in Selangor.I don't know how many botak hills are in Cameron Highlands.
My sympathy goes to my friends in JBA Pahang. What has gone wrong? WeBerismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-50810632001-08-14T03:27:00.000-07:002001-08-14T03:27:08.400-07:00It is a pity to read news about 100 lives were lost due to flood in northern Thailand this week. The villagers were warned but they did not listen. This is a major problem in Asian country. Innocent lives were lost due to people's ignorant about possible dangers;be it flood,disease,drugs etc. I still remember in the my country's worst flood in 1967 when my late father had to go and persuade theBerismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-50138302001-08-10T04:37:00.000-07:002001-08-10T04:37:24.213-07:00MWA WATERAID PROJECT
(A paper I submitted to MWA Council for approval)
Background:
Malaysia will soon celebrate its 44 th Merdeka Day in a few days time. Sad to note, there are thousands of us who have yet to get access to good water supply and proper sanitation facilities in isolated areas. It is time we do something for them.
What is it?
It is a project to provide basic water supply and Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-49266162001-08-05T17:25:00.000-07:002001-08-05T17:25:17.660-07:00TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE WATER
Hundreds of thousands in Honduras sufferred food shortage due to frequent flood and draughts. This calls for national strategis planning to manage water resources in all developing and third world countries. Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia are endowed with abundance water supply and yet we do suffered water shortages and severe floodings. In my view, we have not Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-47586852001-07-27T04:29:00.000-07:002001-07-27T04:29:32.843-07:00About 70% of Malaysian water pipelines is made up of asbestos pipes. The amount of "non-revinue water" is about 43%. The national target is to reduce that to 20% in 2002(I think). Looking at the amount of money allocated and the efforts taken so far , it is only a dream! Water literally goes down the drain. It is estimated to be about RM 108m loss every year. What a waste....Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-47008342001-07-24T03:16:00.000-07:002001-07-24T03:16:18.956-07:00This afternoon I met a fellow water engineer. He questioned the need to close the plant for repairs. Why can't partial closure be done instead of total closure that cause havoc to almost one million people in Klang Valley?? Then, my friends at JBAS and PNSB need to explain to us poor souls. Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-46820692001-07-23T04:49:00.000-07:002001-07-23T04:49:40.176-07:00The water "supply" is almost okay but the quality is unacceptable. But , what choice have we got? Water is the monopoly business of government or privatised companies. The customers have to live with it. The reason behind bad water quality is because our pipes were never cleaned periodically as they should:-((
we have clean water leaving the treatment plants, but the distribution network is Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087371.post-46593962001-07-21T15:24:00.000-07:002001-07-21T15:24:32.776-07:00To-day is the first day we have no water in KL. It happened before in 1998. And I believe it will happen again if we do not manage our water resources and our treatment plants and distribution systems as they should be. Everyone life is greatly affected by this water problems.
Note: First posting in this journal.-21/07/01Berismannoreply@blogger.com0