PARLIAMENT The government has revealed that repairing all the outdated water pipes in the country, which are contributing to the high level of non-revenue water, would cost a staggering RM11 billion and is "too big to be borne by development budgets."

In a written answer to Nga Kor Ming, (DAP-Taiping), the Energy, Green Technology, and Water Ministry said that only RM 975 million was allocated for such repair works in the 10th Malaysia Plan, which ends ext year.

It said that 43,390km of water pipes need to be upgraded.

Nga ( on the left ), in revealing the answer, said that is a "sin" for Malaysia to continue wasting so much treated water when other countries are suffering from genuine water crises.

He also jibed that at the current rate, Malaysia will not complete fixing all its pipes until the year 2070, or during the 21st Malaysia Plan.

Nga also said that more than 30 percent of treated water was being wasted annually because of the state of the pipes.

He was responding to a report in The Star today, which said Klang Valley residents might face water rationing and water shortage even though the monsoon season had arrived in Malaysia.

However, the government said it is enabling water operators to raise their own funding to repair the pipes, through the national water restructuring exercise.