00:00For your information, there are two main sources of water supply for Langkawi Island.
00:07The first one is LRE Sungai Baru Perlis, which supplies 54.55 million litres per day.
00:17The second one is four LREs in Langkawi Island, which supplies 32.74 million litres per day.
00:27These are LRE Padang Saga 2, LRE Padang Saga 3, LRE Bukit Kemboja, and LRE Pulau Tuba.
00:36The main issue of water supply in Langkawi is caused by a 7-kilometre-wide pipe leak
00:45from a 35-kilometre-wide pipe that supplies water from LRE Sungai Baru to the Langkawi dam.
00:55The Indonesian government has also provided a loan of RM50 million
01:00for a project to repair a seabed pipe from a large land to Langkawi Island.
01:05This project must be carried out immediately by the Kedah state government
01:10through Aedarul Aman or SADA.
01:13Currently, it is in the level of the Project Value Assessment Lab,
01:20which was held on June 24, 2024, and is expected to start in November 2024.
01:30For a simple settlement, the project to increase the supply of fresh water
01:37by 20 million litres per day from a bundled storage at Maksirat Keempangan Malut
01:43has been carried out in May 2024.
01:47This project received a grant from an organisation worth RM8 million.
01:51Subsequently, SPAN also asked SADA to present a mitigation plan
01:57to deal with this water supply issue, especially in the short term,
02:01including by sending a tank and static tank lorry
02:06to reduce water supply disruption to the affected users,
02:10as well as to continue the work of repairing the leak of the seabed pipe that has been affected.
02:17Meanwhile, the long-term solution is as follows.
02:21Firstly, the LRA Padang Saga Phase 4 construction project
02:26with a capacity of 20 million litres per day,
02:29the LRA Padang Saga Phase 5 construction project
02:32with a capacity of 30 million litres per day,
02:35and thirdly, the construction of an underground dam
02:39at Maksirat Keempangan Malut
02:42with an additional capacity of 42.8 million cubic metres of water supply
02:48which is expected to start in May 2025.
02:52In addition, a total of 16.3 million ringgit has been allocated under Article 4 of the 12th RMK
02:59under the NRW National Approach 1 programme.
03:03The NRW National Approach 1 project in Pulau Langkawi is expected to reduce
03:08the water loss by 10 million litres per day
03:12by August 2024.
03:15Thank you, Madam Speaker.
03:17Sungai Petani
03:18Thank you, Madam Speaker.
03:20Thank you, Honourable Minister.
03:22Several factors contributing to the water supply problem in Pulau Langkawi
03:27are caused by inequality between the level of development in the area
03:33and the high level of non-revenue water with the NRW permit
03:38and also the levels of leakage along the 7-kilometre pipe
03:43and approximately 23 leakage points.
03:46I would like to congratulate you on the steps taken by the Ministry
03:50in a short, simple and long period of time.
03:53But what are the contingency measures taken by the Ministry
03:59in the high season?
04:05And how can Petra help improve the report of the Head of State Audit
04:13which states that the percentage of NRW in Kedah is very high,
04:18up to 51.5%.
04:21And at the same time, I would like to urge the Ministry and the Government
04:26to work together to improve the water reserve in Kedah
04:32which is 0% of the water reserve in Kedah.
04:36So, I would like to ask for clarification from the Ministry.
04:39Thank you.
04:40Thank you, Honourable Sungai Petani.
04:44For questions related to Pulau Langkawi,
04:48we estimate that there will be five major events in the next five months.
04:59Therefore, when we talk about repairing the seabed pipe
05:05which has experienced a leak,
05:07in fact, the leak at this time is getting worse
05:10compared to the report from 2-3 years ago.
05:14Therefore, the decision that we ask from the state
05:20is to repair the seabed pipe
05:24where we can repair the seabed pipe first
05:26under the decision that has been approved,
05:28which is RM50 million.
05:30However, the budget or the savings made
05:36in fact, the leak requires an additional cost of around RM110 million.
05:42Therefore, the government will consider this matter
05:47to help in terms of lending under the PAAB.
05:52Secondly, if you allow me,
05:57regarding the water reserve in Kedah,
06:00this matter should be taken seriously
06:02because the leak has occurred by the head of the state audit.
06:07Therefore, as long as the five water treatment projects
06:11that we have allocated for the four projects
06:16need to be prepared,
06:18because as long as it is not ready,
06:20the water reserve is actually not empty
06:22but now it is negative in Kedah.
06:24Therefore, our request,
06:27although the state has asked to implement the project in 2021,
06:32the ministry will also try to monitor
06:37even though the monitoring is carried out under the state government.
06:41Thank you, Madam Speaker.
06:42Mr. Langkawi.
06:43I would like to thank the government
06:47for helping the water problem in Langkawi.
06:52And I believe that the ministry also realizes that
06:56the seabed pipe has been around for 27 years
07:03and for 37 kilometers from Perlis to Langkawi,
07:09there has always been a leak,
07:11not just between those 7 kilometers.
07:14And I am informed that
07:16if you want to repair this submarine cable,
07:19you have to wait,
07:21you have to wait for the right current,
07:23the right wave,
07:25the right seabed tranquility
07:27before they come down.
07:28And it can only be done twice in a month.
07:32Mr. Langkawi, please summarize your question.
07:34Mr. Minister,
07:36I want to ask,
07:38does the government not think to continue to change?
07:42It has been 27 years,
07:45of course, there is a leak here and there.
07:48A 27-year-old human being
07:50is sick here and there.
07:52Does the government want to help the seabed
07:56to continue to change this submarine cable?
07:59Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
08:01Mr. Speaker,
08:02as I have explained before,
08:05the leak is actually at the national level,
08:09in terms of the cost.
08:12When it comes to the leak,
08:16the observations made by the operators
08:19and those involved there,
08:22the source of the leak is from Pukat Tunda.
08:27Therefore, the leak
08:29is more likely to cause damage
08:32due to disturbances.
08:36Because the 7 km
08:39is a line in the middle.
08:43Therefore,
08:45in terms of how we can
08:47fix the long term,
08:50to repair the 50 million ringgit
08:53that I mentioned earlier,
08:55it is not enough.
08:56Therefore,
08:57as a ministry,
08:59we are also looking for a way
09:01to pass on the additional demand
09:04through loans,
09:05through PAB.
09:07However, we need to ask
09:10the government
09:12to take this matter seriously.
09:14Because,
09:15even though,
09:16in terms of the seabed as a whole,
09:20the users or owners of water accounts
09:23are more in Kedah than in Langkawi.
09:26However, Langkawi is an island
09:28that we have to take care of,
09:30we have to raise its status.
09:32Therefore,
09:33I also ask for cooperation
09:34from the people of Langkawi
09:36to voice to the government
09:39to give an image that
09:41the responsibility of water
09:43in this country
09:44needs to be the priority
09:46for the continuation of Langkawi
09:48as a tourist destination.
09:50Thank you, Madam Vice President.
09:53Thank you.
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