Villager pleads for water leak to be fixed

KUCHING: A villager from Kampung Semadang at KM38, Jalan Puncak Borneo near here is asking the relevant authority to repair the leaking water pipeline in front of his house as soon as possible.

The 58-year-old farmer, who requested anonymity, said leakage from the main pipe underground was detected almost a month ago.
He said the village head had called the authority to inform them about the leakage but until yesterday, nothing has been done.

“As you can see, water continues to come out from underground and flow through the drain between my house wall and that of my neighbour.

“If it continues like this, the water can cause damage to my earth drain and my house wall,” he said at the site of the leakage.
Kampung Semadang headman Samsom Manggang when contacted said he had informed the relevant authority twice but there was no action taken.

He said on June 28, he called to inform the authority verbally and two days later, he sent a video of the leakage to an officer in-charge as a follow-up to the first complaint.

“I don’t know why, until today, nothing is being done to fix the leakage when obviously it is a waste of the taxpayers’ money,” he said.
Observation suggests that the potential water loss from the leaking pipe can reach thousands of litres a day, with the leakage having lasted about three weeks, and counting, with no end in sight.

Statistics showed 37.89 per cent of non-revenue water (NRW) was recorded in Sarawak in 2016 with losses estimated at about RM122 million.

Minister of Rural Electricity and Water Supply Datuk Sri Dr Stephen Rundi Utom said compared with the figure recorded in 2015, there was a reduction in NRW of about 0.21 per cent.

“However, in term of monetary value, there is an increase of RM12 million. This is due to an overall increase in the amount of water produced at treatment plants.” he was quoted as saying by The Borneo Post last month when asked about the percentage of NRW for Sarawak last year and losses in monetary value.

My comments:

Being lackadaisical has become a culture of the BN government.  Do you still want to support them or do you still want to be looped to vote for the BN government? Stop being a fool.

I suggest the village head or not to go to see the so-called BN representative in your area.  If within the specified time, the work is still not done, the next move is to get it reported in the newspaper.  If the news does not reach them, the next next move is to gather the villagers to get someone, experienced to repair it yourselves.  

It  has become a culture that  people have to burden for extra or not extra services or goods after tax.  Many schools, some facilities of hospitals, .... in our country,  Sarawak depend heavily on people to sustain.  It is time to stop and force the government today to be more responsible.  We all should prepare ourselves to change for good for ourselves and for the future generation to come.