Water shortage in KK, back to normal Tuesday

The shortage of water supply to the residents of Kota Kinabalu City, Penampang and Putatan districts since Oct 7, will be back to normal next Tuesday, said Sabah Water Department Director Ag Mohd Tahir Mohd Talib.

He said water supply pressure to the affected  areas would also be normalised after repair works were done on the water pump equipment at Kasigui Treatment Plant intakes, which totally submerged due to the recent floods.

“Efforts are made as soon as the river levels receded enough for cleaning and the extraction of some of  the submerged equipments for repairs.

“More works are still required for some more major equipment but the normal  supply from the treatment plants will resume by Tuesday and water supply and pressure to affected areas normalised within a few day's time,” he said in a statement in Kota Kinabalu today.

He said on Oct 7, Kasigui Treatment Plant intakes were totally submerged and the situation continued until yesterday, which hindered the removal, repair and reinstallation of all raw water pumps and related equipments to pump the water to the treatment plant for processing.

Kasigui plant and Moyog plant supplied 60 percent of the water to Kota Kinabalu City, Penampang and Putatan districts.

- Bernama