Keeping Penang watered

By Jeffrey Hardy Quah

March 2011 COVER STORY
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Penang currently enjoys the cheapest water in Malaysia, if not the world.
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Water management or rather water mismanagement has been making headline news in Malaysia for months. PEM takes an in-depth look at the Penang Water Supply Corporation and reveals how this publicprivate partnership has thrived and become a model for the rest of the nation.IT HAS BEEN a busy couple of months for the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP, more commonly referred to as PBA). On December 28, 2010, the water company carried out major upgrading and maintenance works, a project...

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