Why the Quality of drinkng water is deteriorating in Malaysia?
Our water sources in Malaysia
are increasingly getting polluted. As a result the water we get is full of
impurities and not fit for drinking.
River water, which is our
primary source of water, gets contaminated due to various reasons such as
direct disposal of sewage by municipalities, excessive discharge of industrial
pollutants, use for daily chores like washing, bathing, livestock bathing,
garbage disposal, etc.
Water sourced from
groundwater too has deteriorated due to the excessive use of pesticides &
insecticides in agricultural Malaysia, which seep into the groundwater as well
as get washed away into the rivers. Decreasing levels of groundwater also
attracts natural contaminants present in the earth such as Arsenic, Fluoride,
Lead, Heavy Metals, which make the water hard.
Our water suppliers are not
well equipped to completely purify the water we drink. They are unable to
remove harmful dissolved impurities as they use outdated methods of purification
such as chlorination, various chemicals and filtration. The pipes in which the
water is supplied are rusty which makes the supplied water polluted and the
overhead tanks in which water is stored are breeding grounds for bacteria and
viruses as they are never cleaned.
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