PBS Sri Tanjong news

TAWAU, The district Water Department will immediately rectify any shortcoming in matter of delivering fresh water to consumers and require the support from the general public in making the work done speedily.

It’s district’s chief engineer, Baharin Antonio said this in a meeting with Parti Bersatu Sabah PBS) PKR for Sri Tanjong, Fung Len Fui, his assistant Lee Sie Yin and deputy chairman of PBS Sri Tanjong, Chong Hon Vun yesterday.

Bahrin said they are constantly looking for problems such as burst piping as there are still a number of water pipes that existed for tens of years in the district and the additional water pressure added to supply the growing number of residents here can cause such old pipes to burst.

He cited the current problem of fresh water not reaching the Daya Usaha housing estate, the Hot Spring market and the Hot Spring Senior Citizens’ Home was caused by such an event and work is being done to repair the burst pipe.

`Public can contact us upon witnessing any burst piping and we will immediately do the necessary repair’, Bahrin explained.

Fung raised the matter to Bahrin in the meeting citing no water had reach the consumers there for days and seek co-operation from the department in repairing the matter.

At the same time, Fung also urge the department not to cut water supply especially in the coming Chinese New Year celebration as this has happened before in the past causing much dissatisfaction among consumers.

15/01/2009

Caption: Fung (2nd from right) with Bahrin (2nd from left) and others after the meeting.