Selangor rages against the water disruptions every other year. And yet, it goes nowhere to being harnessed into real policy change because industrial pollution is not criminalized. 1/5

Under the Environmental Quality Act 1947, the punishment for inland water pollution is RM100k and/or 5 years jail. You get more time for drunk driving and that sum is chump change.

The state and our communities can't keep footing the bill for this corporate malice. 2/5

There needs to be accountability.

Public officials in charge of overseeing regulation need to go and be replaced with leaders equipped with a technical expertise in water management capable of implementing and articulating a resolution to this crisis. 3/5.

More than expertise, they need to be bulldogs.

Malaysian corporations are entrenched bastions of special interests and political power. 4/5

Holding them accountable will be an ugly, taxing fight for those who take up the challenge. But I can tell you right now that if you make it state agenda, you will have no shortage of public support. 5/5