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BELURU: DAP’s effort to use ‘Impian Sarawak’ to provide gravity-feed water supply to rural folks pales in comparison with the government’s initiative in providing treated water to the people.
Assistant Minister of Public Utilities (Water Supply) Datuk Sylvester Entri said the DAP was making a big deal out of what they had done with ‘Impian Sarawak’.
“We have already moved on to nano technology, such as Lifesaver M1 filtration system,” he said when launching the system at Rumah Ramba in Sungai Liam, Bakong, and Rumah Abon in Tinjar yesterday.
He said the government could easily implement gravity-feed system by providing materials such as pipes to the local community, but this was not a tangible long term solution.
“DAP’s rural push to provide gravity-feed water by just providing pipes is merely replicating what we have done a long time ago. They are merely aimed at gaining political mileage.”
A single unit of Lifesaver M1 unit, he pointed out, could provide clean drinking water for 20 households. This project comes under the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development.
Some 80 of such systems would be implemented in 78 longhouses and settlements in Marudi constituency, where Entri is its assemblyman.
Meanwhile, Entri urged the ministry to reconsider its distribution criteria. For instance, he said, longhouses having between 35 and 38 doors ought to be given two units of the system.
“What is another few doors short of 40 when compared to practical rural needs in Sarawak.”
He also said it would be more practical to provide the individual jerry can filtration system instead of the current single unit system.
“These individual jerry cans can be brought from inside the individual ‘bilek’ (room) to the source of water in the river or to farms.”
On the Lifesave System, Entri advised its recipients to maintain it well in order to prolong the lifespan of the filtration system.
“Good management at village or longhouse level is critical for system to last.”
A spokesman from the contractor, Dr Rajiv Bhanotn, said up to 540,540 gallons of water from rainwater or other sources could be treated by the nano filtration system.
It is safe for drinking without cooking.
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