RM1mil intervention plan to ease UMS water woes
This comes after Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof visited the campus during a one-day working visit here on Monday (July 14).
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Fadillah, who is also Energy Transition and Water Transformation Minister, said this is a short-term plan to address the problem and is expected to benefit over 3,000 students, especially those living in the Tun Mustapha and Tun Fuad hostels.
He said the plan involves the construction of a specific distribution channel connecting the underground water supply system developed by UMS, among other things.
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It also involves adding underground water tanks for a 130,000-litre additional capacity, and installing automated modulating valves to stabilise water levels in the UMS service tanks, he added.
'To ensure sufficient water pressure to student hostels, the Water Supply Department is providing in-line booster pumps and service tanks to UMS, using the existing bypass pipes built by UMS,' he said.
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He said the intervention works would take about a month to complete.
Fadillah thanked the Federal Government, the Higher Education Ministry, the Water Supply Department, Sabah Water Department, and other technical agencies for implementing the intervention plan.
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