Responsibility on Water

14th of March was a busy day for every household and businessmen in Klang Valley especially those in the F & B, laundry and car washing, beverage making sector. Prior that, announcement was made that water supply will be stopped on that day due to the operation of cleaning up the water treatment plant and reservoir. The cleaning is necessary due to disruption of the plant by sudden flooding and over flowing of muddy water from the river system the previous week. Although the water supply disruption did not materialise, i think a valuable lesson was learnt, that is water conservation is the responsibility of all and hence the impact is directly or indirectly on us.

While many people on the street are not aware about the importance of mitigation and adaptation on climate change and environmental degradation as many of us are not directly affected by the tsunami, typhoon, earth quake and other natural disasters, the sudden stopping of water supply is real and should be able to serve as an alarming notice to all. Many will not feel the pain and the need to change unless they themselves experienced it. Although anticipated disruption was not happened, but the troublesome of storing up the water has taught many of us a lesson. Perhaps more of such untoward incidents will aware us the urgent need of going green and sustainability. I presume people is more than willing to learn from mistake and mishap during difficult time rather than making a change during easy time at the comfort zone.