POO, pee and toilet paper are the only items that should be flushed down the toilet.
However, Malaysians have been flushing more than the 3Ps down their toilets.
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd (IWK) chief executive officer Narendran Maniam said an average of 40,000 tonnes of rubbish end up in its sewerage treatment system every year.
“From sanitary pads, wet wipes, and condoms to cigarette butts, cat litter, medicine, diapers and hair are thrown into the toilets and these items clog and contaminate our sewerage systems.
“We even discovered a fully formed foetus once, ” Narendran explained.
“IWK treatment plants can only treat sewage.
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IWK is now pioneering the supply of reclaimed water through renewable processes with the cooperation of the Environment and Water Ministry, the National Water Services Commission (SPAN) and water operators.
ACCORDING to statistics last year, Malaysia recorded a population of about 32.7 million people. The increase in population each year will certainly raise demand for various essential needs, especially clean water and food resources.
As such, our Government has stated its commitment under the Green Technology Master Plan 2017-2030 to reuse 33% of treated effluent water to the benefit of Malaysians.
In this regard, the related initiative has been included in the Environment and Water Ministry’s direction towards Environmental Sustainability in Malaysia (2020-2030), which aims to produce 1,500 million litres per day of reclaimed water from treated effluent.
EARLY December 2020, Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat urged law enforcement authorities to up their ante and work tirelessly to combat environmental crime. This directive was issued following a series of river pollution cases in Selangor.
MOST owners of individual septic tank systems consider it to be a system that traps wastewater from home and believe that there is no need to concern themselves with the maintenance of the system or desludging – but nothing can be further from the truth.