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[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 67353, member: 636"]
Water service has returned to more than half of the households affected by contamination in Malaysia's Johor River, utility officials reported Monday morning. Ranhill SAJ announced that 244,242 consumer connections among 455,499 impacted by the pollution crisis have regained supply, while 211,257 accounts remain without service. The disruption began on Friday after sediment from a failed sand-washing facility entered the waterway.

The Pontian district has achieved complete restoration, the water operator said. Recovery rates elsewhere show 65 percent of Kulai's 79,587 affected accounts back online, 54 percent of Johor Bahru's 162,833 connections restored, and just two percent of Kota Tinggi's 588 households reconnected. Johor Bahru continues experiencing the largest outage with 139,654 accounts still offline. The company deployed 40 tanker trucks to maintain emergency deliveries throughout affected zones and established drinking water distribution points in densely populated neighborhoods.

State officials reported Sunday that turbidity readings in the river basin spiked to 37,400 Nephelometric Turbidity Units compared with typical measurements around 400 NTU. A local mining operation's sixth settling pond collapsed in Kota Tinggi, releasing soil into the river system. Authorities increased discharge from Linggiu Dam to reduce contamination levels downstream.
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