4% of country’s rivers found to be polluted in 2022
Monitoring by the Environment Department has found that 29 out of the country’s 672 rivers were polluted in 2022. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 13, 2023.
He said the data were derived monitoring by the Environment Department which found that the Water Quality Index for these rivers was in the “polluted” category during that period. “Among the measures implemented are enhancing enforcement for the causes of pollution subject to the Environmental Quality Act 1974 , ensuring development projects are based on EIA , identifying the location of the complaint, and integrated operations with enforcement agencies,” he said.
Nik Nazmi said DOE will continuously monitor water quality through the environmental quality monitoring programme and there are 30 automatic monitoring stations and 1,353 manual monitoring stations for river water quality monitoring nationwide.
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