Dry season: Sufficient underground water reserves to face eventualities, says Nadma

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KUALA LUMPUR: Active underground wells or tube wells sources in the country possess sufficient reserves to face any disaster during the dry season following the transition of the Southwest Monsoon, said the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma) in a statement here on Wednesday (May 18).

It said based on the data from the Mineral and Geoscience Department , there are 5,563 tube wells nationwide to cope with the effects of the climate change.According to Nadma, through the Coordination Meeting for Hot and Dry Weather held today, JMG was instructed to map out or match the location of tube wells with hotspot areas to ensure disaster management can be implemented more effectively.

Apart from that, drought monitoring will be done by the Department of Irrigation and Drainage on a weekly and monthly basis through the NAWABS Operations Centre."The overall analysis for rainfall over a three-month period showed the whole of the Peninsular, Sabah and Sarawak received above-normal rainfall.

 

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