About 800 Orang Asli villagers living in Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's constituency of Pekan, Pahang have been suffering from water shortages for over a month.

Shafie Dris, a coordinator with the Pahang Orang Asli Village Network told Malaysiakini that taps in the village had mysteriously gone dry.

"The villagers always face water shortages, but this is the longest it has happened. [...] The water tank lies beyond the village so they don't know what happened [...] it just suddenly stopped," Shafie said when contacted.