IWK Builds Six New Wastewater Plants in Malaysia

The Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) will build six up-to-date wastewater treatment plants in four Malaysian cities: Sungai Besi, Port Dickson, Penang and Langkawi by the year 2001.

IWK is currently constructing the first phase of the RM40 million Sungai Besi treatment plant and expects to be completed by June 1999. This facility, which will serve approximately 165,000 people when completed, is the sixth of eight sewage treatment plants that are required by the 1977 Kuala Lumpur Sewerage Master Plan.

IWK will construct three new treatment plants in Langkawi that will serve 40,000 people at a cost of RM15 million; a new plant in Pagang Mat Sirat (RM20 million); and one on the southwest coast of the island.

A RPM130 million plant will be built in Jelutong, Penang, to serve 300,000 people; and a RM60 million plant in Bayan Baru to serve 150,000 people.

IWK has provided more than seven million people with sewerage services through 5,200 treatment plants. The plants are linked by over 7,000km of wastewater collection pipelines lines and the company also is serving over four million others who live in homes with individual septic tanks.