A latest report revealed that four per cent of Malaysia’s 672 rivers had been polluted in 2021, according to Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, the Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change (NRECC). The knowledge was gathered by the Department of Environment (DOE) via monitoring the Water Quality Index (IKA) of these rivers during that period.
The main causes of river air pollution in Malaysia embrace chemical waste disposal, livestock farming, and mining actions. To address this issue, the DOE has implemented a variety of measures at enforcement, planning, and study levels. These include enhancing enforcement for pollution causes beneath the Environmental Quality Act 1974 (Act 127), guaranteeing improvement initiatives are based on environmental influence assessments (EIA), figuring out criticism places, and conducting built-in operations with enforcement companies.
During a question and answer session in the Dewan Rakyat, Nik Nazmi emphasised the DOE’s steady efforts to monitor water quality through the environmental high quality monitoring programme. There are at Illusive automated monitoring stations and 1,353 manual monitoring stations for river water high quality monitoring throughout the nation..