Expect “Quick” smell from DPM

Today’s The Sun front page reported that next time, if you detect any foul smell in the water, you will get immediate attention straight from our DPM, Datuk Seri Najib Razak. This is because our DPM is now heading the new cabinet committee on environmental problems. He said the committee comprises representatives of several ministries and state governments and will coordinate the action to be taken and adopt an integrated approach to overcome the problem.

The question here is: how to report? The committee should immediately make available all the contact channels, including hotline, fax. number, email address and URL. Do you think calling the JBA office, or Syabas headquarters will automatically escalate your problem? I don’t know. You may get a response like: “Sorry sir, we are not handling this now. Please call the committee.”

By the way, what is the name of the committee? What is the scope of the committee? Will it entertaining just foul smell from the water? The report said that it’s set up to counter environment problems. That could be a wide area including water, noise and air pollution, illegal toxic dump, illegal burning, landfill, rubbish management, so on and so forth. Hopefully there will be more announcements later.