Pakar-pakar kata jangan usik air bawah tanah di Malaysia ni. Tapi di Negeri Sembilan , mereka tak nak dengar nasihat pakar-pakar.
Pakar-pakar dah kata bandaraya Bangkok dan Mexico City mukabuminya tenggelam kerana pengambilan air dari bawah tanah yang tidak terkawal. Pakar-pakar juga kata, kos ambil air bawah tanah adalah lima kali ganda lebih tinggi dari ambil air di permukaan. Tak tahulah, mungkin orang Negeri Sembilan lagi pakar, dari pakar-pakar tadi agaknya. ***************************** 'LEAVE WATER IN GROUND FOR THE FUTURE' New Straits Times 11 May 2010 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia should protect and properly manage all its surface water supply before resorting to groundwater, a prominent scientist has warned. Professor Dr Chan Ngai Weng of Universiti Sains Malaysia said better management of rivers, river basins and water catchments could avert a water crisis from hitting the country. But, he said, proper management must be complemented with sustainable consumption which Malaysians still have a lot to learn from. "Groundwater should be left to the future generations," he said at a Water Resource Management seminar at the National Institute of Public Administration (Intan) at Bukit Kiara yesterday. Chan was among the presenters at the first session, themed "Water Resource Management: A Crisis". At present, 97 per cent of Malaysia's water supply comes from surface resources especially rivers. "We still have lots of rivers. What we need to do is tell our consumers to start saving (water)," Chan said. "We should also gazette all our water catchment areas and make recycling water mandatory." Chan does not have an issue with small scale use of groundwater such as wells in villages. It is projects that tap groundwater on a mega scale that worries him. "If we start mining groundwater (in a big way), there is no control. "Even if we have to do it, we must make sure we don't use more than its recharge ability," he said. Chan explained that the recharge ability is the time it takes the groundwater to replace what was taken out. He warned that cities like Bangkok and Mexico city were sinking because of extensive over-pumping being carried out in these cities. Cost-wise, groundwater is also five times more expensive than surface water. Other speakers in the same session, Irrigation and Drainage Department, Water Resources and Hydrology division director Hanapi Mohamad Noor, Water and Energy Consumer Association secretary-general S. Piarapakaran and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Institute for Environment and Development Raja Datuk Zaharaton Raja Zainal Abidin agreed that it was timely for water management to be streamlined. All three speakers in the seminar argued that the current framework was "too sectorial". "Without an integrated water management, policies can't be implemented in a holistic way," Raja Zaharaton said. http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/13maja/Article/index_html **************************** NEGERI SEMBILAN TEROKA SUMBER AIR BAWAH TANAH 24 Mac 2010 SEREMBAN: Negeri Sembilan akan meneroka sumber air bawah tanah bagi menampung keperluan air bersih di negeri ini, kata Menteri Besar, Datuk Mohamad Hasan. Beliau berkata, sumber air itu diperlukan berikutan bekalan air di permukaan seperti sungai dan empangan semakin terbatas ekoran cuaca panas dan pengurangan taburan hujan di beberapa kawasan tadahan air di negeri ini. http://www.mstar.com.my/berita/cerita.asp?file=/2010/3/24/mstar_berita/20100324163950&sec=mstar_berita *********************** SUMBER AIR BAWAH TANAH SEREMBAN 24 Mac - Catuan air oleh Syarikat Air Negeri Sembilan (Sains) baru-baru ini telah membawa kepada cadangan untuk mencari sumber air bawah tanah sebagai alternatif baru pada masa depan. Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan berkata, satu arahan telah dibuat kepada Sains supaya segera membuat kajian untuk mencari punca air yang terdapat di dalam tanah untuk dipam keluar pada waktu yang diperlukan. "Ketika ini kita sedang menggali lombong besar untuk dijadikan kolam takungan di Kuala Sawah, Rantau yang berkeluasan 80.9 hektar," katanya. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0325&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Selatan&pg=ws_02.htm
