Sabah’s tough environment and water resources laws are impotent against polluters
Sabah’s once pristine rivers are so badly polluted that fish and other aquatic life have declined so drastically that the indigenous Muruts who live in remote Pensiangan in the interior of the state no longer go fishing. There are just no fish to catch. Christina Liew, the state tourism, environment and culture minister, acknowledges that river pollution has reached a critical stage; but she is silent on why her Environment Protection Department which has sweeping police powers fails to arrest the problem. Instead she expects participants at a one-day river management workshop in Kota Kinabalu last week to come out with urgent solutions “to develop a clear and comprehensive roadmap for managing rivers in Sabah”
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