NEEDLESS, that water rationing suffered by Selangor residents caused by some unseasonal hot weather for six months from February last year. Albeit the rationing happened during the term of the previous menteri besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim and that was what pushed him to the realisation that the imminent threat of water shortage needed to be resolved. He signed a Master Agreement (MA) with the Federal Government on Sept 12 last year undertaking the much-awaited water restructuring exercise. But with the changing of the guards barely two weeks later, the new MB Azmin Ali decided to do a dirty and attempted to cause the MA to be stillborn. Stranger still was when he, a Pakatan Rakyat man, appealed for the prime minister, the Barisan Nasional (BN) leader, to help solve an impasse of his own making. And now, after the latest meeting with the Minister for Energy, Green Technology, and Water Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili, he has a change of heart and will, within 60 days, complete the restructuring exercise.
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