All-Systems-Go For Water
By Azlan Othman

Bandar Seri Begawan - Water supply will be upgraded with the implementation of all projects under the 8NDP to meet demand in Brunei/Muara, Tutong and throughout the nation till 2015.

Two main water supply projects include construction for raw water intake, firstly, the ongoing construction of a pump station and main pipe channel installation in Kuala Abang and secondly, the construction of a new $17.8-million water treatment plant at Bukit Barun which will take 20 months from April 2005 to be completed in 2006 mid-November.

The Director of Water Services, Hj Suhaimi Hj Ghafar, disclosed this at yesterday's ground-breaking ceremony for a raw water treatment plant at Bukit Barun.

The ceremony was graced by the Minister of Development, Pehin Dato Paduka Awg Hj Abdullah. Also present were Deputy Minister Dato Paduka Dr Hj Mat Suny and permanent secretaries.

Awg Hj Suhaimi highlighted that the scope of work at the new treatment plant in Bukit Barun including civil engineering work, mechanical, electrical, construction of office and machine control room, splitter chamber, process tank and a building to store chemicals and chlorine as well as a road linking the present and new plant.

Raw water from Sungai Tutong is treated in this Bukit Barun plant through a main pipe channel from raw water intake station in Kuala Abang.

The raw water is processed and treated at this plant before being supplied to Brunei/Muara and Tutong. The new plant is able to process 60 million litres of raw water a day, boosting 218 million litres a day to 278 million litres of clean water a day.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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