PUB assisting Johor lost of water supply.
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This is nice. Seems that the Malaysian don't mind Newater after all
CNA 24 February 2003 2041 hrs
Johor landslide damages water pipe, PUB helps supply Johor with more water
The Public Utilities Board is now working closely with Johor authorities to supply water to Johor after a landslide damaged a major water pipe supplying water to the city area.
PUB said since the incident, Johor is taking 10 million gallons more water a day from Singapore.
In the landslide which happened around the Puteri Park construction site on Saturday evening, one of four main water pipes were damaged.
As a result, the Syarikat Air Johor Holdings (SAJH) which oversees the supply of water from the Loji Air Sungai Johor to the city, said supply would be reduced by 30 per cent or about 35 million gallons of water daily until the pipe is fixed.
This is expected to take about a week.
And until supply is restored, the SAJH has provided water-tanks to supply water to the affected residents. Media reports have put the
number of residents affected at 500,000.
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yeah i hope they will "recognise" it...
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Spore your helpful and friendly good neighbour.
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Originally posted by Gun:
hehehe... the irony.
[b]This is nice. Seems that the Malaysian don't mind Newater after all
CNA 24 February 2003 2041 hrs
Johor landslide damages water pipe, PUB helps supply Johor with more water
The Public Utilities Board is now working closely with Johor authorities to supply water to Johor after a landslide damaged a major water pipe supplying water to the city area.
PUB said since the incident, Johor is taking 10 million gallons more water a day from Singapore.
In the landslide which happened around the Puteri Park construction site on Saturday evening, one of four main water pipes were damaged.
As a result, the Syarikat Air Johor Holdings (SAJH) which oversees the supply of water from the Loji Air Sungai Johor to the city, said supply would be reduced by 30 per cent or about 35 million gallons of water daily until the pipe is fixed.
This is expected to take about a week.
And until supply is restored, the SAJH has provided water-tanks to supply water to the affected residents. Media reports have put the
number of residents affected at 500,000.
The water pipes supplying water to Singapore were not damaged by the landslide.
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help your enemy when he is down, and he will burn with shame. which is a better revenge.
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lan sai... those people super thick skin, not shy one... they'll probably blame us for making a profit out of their misfortune...Originally posted by dumbdumb!:help your enemy when he is down, and he will burn with shame. which is a better revenge.
selling them their own water that is only "scrub scrub a bit" at a marked up price... funny how they always forget that we subsidise the price of treated water we sell them...
so just think... they take 10 million gallons more a day... someone do the maths... how much money are we throwing away here???
we should just leave them to drink their own raw sewage. i don't see a thank you note coming our way anyway...
pity the people of JB... those fat cats in KL are still happily hob-nobbing at the NAM summit and taking potshots at the west for depriving them of their place in the sun... wonder if they're serving champagne... -
All I can say is poetic justice...
Though it's kinda a pity we as singaporeans will not make a big hoo ha about it, something malaysian politicans, in out position, would do... but then again, our position has always been one of some sense... -
The Johorian, or for that matter, Malaysians aren'tOriginally posted by dumbdumb!:help your enemy when he is down, and he will burn with shame. which is a better revenge.
enemies nor do any party need too seek avenge on any shame on
this latest "cooperation", Episode reflect hows inter-dependent the
state and Republic really is and it is ashame that all bad newsgets
more coverage than the good ones. Like this case, the NST
prefer to reported the pipe burst and subsequent water lost to
major districts of Johor without mentioning a word about how the
lost supply was reflenished with the PUB's aid
New Straits Times (Carol Murugiah report)
Water crisis in JB after landslide ruptures pipeline
JOHOR BARU, Feb 23:
About 500,000 residents will be without water supply at least until
Friday after a hill slope at a construction site collapsed last night,
badly damaging the main water pipeline. Water supply is expected
to be restored by Friday at the earliest, making this the worst water
crisis to hit the city which have to endure a daily shortage of 157.5
million litres. By tomorrow morning, taps are expected to run dry in
the Central Business District and nearby residential areas which
are dependent on the Sungai Johor water treatment plant
supplying 30 per cent of Johor Baru's water needs.
The affected areas are Johor Baru City, Jalan Nong Chik, Jalan
Kolam Ayer, Jalan Tun Razak, Jalan Tebrau, Taman Perling,
Taman Universiti, Bandar Baru Uda, Larkin, Kg Melaju Majidee,
Kempas, Kebun Teh, Tampoi, Pandan, Permas Jaya, Taman Mt
Austin and Taman Johor Jaya.
The main pipeline leading from the treatment plant burst when a
landslip brought down tonnes of earth from a man-made hillslope at
Taman Puteri Wangsa's Puteri Park development at about 7.20pm
yesterday.The force of the tumbling earth bent the exposed
pipeline some 45 degrees, causing it to break and leak its high-
pressured contents.
This required SAJ Holdings Sdn Bhd (SAJH), which manages the
water treatment plant, to shut down the controlling valve and cut off
the water supply before the surrounding area became submerged.
Measuring 1.5 metres in diametre, the pipeline was one of four
running over a ditch which served as a drainage system for the
construction site. The three other pipelines belong to Singapore's
Public Utilities Board.
It is not immediately known what caused the landslip as Johor Baru
had been experiencing clear weather for the past two days.
A site check by the New Straits Times today saw excavators
operated by the project developer unearthing the pipeline which
had been completely buried hours before. SAJH civil engineers
were also present to assess the damage.
SAJH corporate communications manager Azmi Mahmood said
contingency measures have already been taken to alleviate the
suffering of residents and businesses who have never experienced
a water supply disruption of this magnitude.
"Residents have yet to feel the impact of the mishap since our
major tanks servicing the residential areas have a storage capacity
lasting 24 hours," Azmi said at the site of the landslide.
Measures include installing static tanks at strategic areas and
deploying water tankers to residential areas once every 24 hours
until the water supply is restored in stages.
Private tankers have also been deployed to distribute water to
people in stricken areas, bringing the total number to 30. There will
be additional tankers servicing these areas as and when the need
arises.
"We are working round-the-clock with the developer to repair the
pipeline and restore water supply as soon as possible," he
said. "We are taking all the necessary measures to improve the
situation which resulted from unforseen circumstances."
Azmi said residents can call SAJH's 24-hour hotline at 07-2224222
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I am thinking what will Dr M say this round?
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maybe he would turn ard and accuse us of sabo-ing themOriginally posted by sugardaddy:I am thinking what will Dr M say this round? -
Sheesh. Are we supplying wash room water to them? 
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maybe they will accusse us of sending poisoned water to them.. wahahaha
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Maybe we should suggest to Msia that we have joint patrol near to pipe to prevent further landslides....
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Originally posted by Master -_-:maybe they will accusse us of sending poisoned water to them.. wahahaha They will say that they appreciate our help. But then actually they don't need it because everything is under control.
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I'm becoming more and more anti-Malaysia. Sheesh. Must be the water agreement articles I read.
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oh... dear dear me.... so ironic...
after mahatir has been going around the world telling world leaders lies and spouting his waterful of nonsense about insentivitive and mercenary singapore govt... over the water agreedment..for years..(including his country's right to cut water supply to singapore because of the 3 cent story)
today.... when mahatir (the longest serving PM of malaysia, host his last grand international event) is hosting the world leaders of NAM in KL for the just the next 2 days... (so accurately !!) his water pipe burst and singapore selflessly pump water into malaysia to help his citizen!!
while his visitors must be marveling over singapore's generosity while at the same time doubt maharaja's honesty.... mahatir probably would be screaming his heads off... looking for the nearest toilet bowl to stick his head into it.... so MALU..... 
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no way... i agree with u... they'll accuse us of profiteering and use the incident as an excuse to not sell water to us.Originally posted by Parka: I'm becoming more and more anti-Malaysia. Sheesh. Must be the water agreement articles I read.
Think I shouldn't post so much.
the accident shows, among other things, that JB's water supply is vulnerable. hence, it can be construed in such a way that the sale of water to Sg cannot go on because they need it for themselves...
thats what syed hamid albar has been getting at all this time about enacting domestic legislation to render the agreements null and void because domestic needs must come before supplying any external parties.
but of course, it can also be construed to mean that selling water to us is a good thing... because it gives them a backup plan.
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Singapore is being good here by sending water to Johor. I hope they realise that we help everyone that is in need..
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I saw the photos in the papers of "singapore's pipes" right next to "Johor's burst pipes".
Noticed how they are above ground and exposed. Are those pipes vulnerable?
We talked about taking Anti-Terrorist measures (eg having army boys patrolling airports) in Singapore.
But if you are a terrorist, it would be far easiler to target Spore water supply in Malaysia.
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hehehe. wad will old madhatir say next. maybe he'll accuse us of being insensitive to their crisis by giving them water.
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Funnily, that's what some of my friends said
Seems that he can be insensitive to everyone and everything but everyone must be sensitive to him.
What a hypocrite Dr.M isOriginally posted by Mazohyst:hehehe. wad will old madhatir say next. maybe he'll accuse us of being insensitive to their crisis by giving them water. -
Politically it is a wise decision to help. Even though the higher ups with their big mouths will say they won't appreciate it it is those with voting power and do not have to care about saving faces like Dr M and the Malaysian Foreign Minister that would feel it is better to continue fostering better relationships with Singapore.
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We had just fed 500,000 Johorean with our treated SIngapore water, that's good news since they critize us so much. Now they will listen to whatever we say or what do have to say for now. I think all other scare bears are shunning JB now.
Anyway, we will contine to supply them will Singapore product till mid year until their fill SAJ decided to turn off the valve supply from Singapore. Their system will have part of every Singaporean that they had critised....I going to pee now... -
When the workers finished adding a temporary pipe for their broken pipe, theyshouted, "Malaysia Boleh! Malaysia Boleh!"
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unfortunately those johorean won't realise that we are helping. see the New Straits Times article posted above.Originally posted by Quad:We had just fed 500,000 Johorean with our treated SIngapore water, that's good news since they critize us so much. Now they will listen to whatever we say or what do have to say for now. I think all other scare bears are shunning JB now.
Anyway, we will contine to supply them will Singapore product till mid year until their fill SAJ decided to turn off the valve supply from Singapore. Their system will have part of every Singaporean that they had critised....I going to pee now...
let's hope Dr M and his sidekick foreign minister dont realise it as well and make monkeys out of themselves in the future.