Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today blamed Pakatan Selangor's populist measures of providing free water and its unwillingness to raise water tariffs for the state's water shortage.
"How many of you suffered from water rationing, how many businessmen cannot get their plans approved due to water rationing?" he asked a strong crowd of 3,000 MCA members and representatives from Chinese NGOs and guilds.
"Why? Because the opposition went on this populist platform, they want to give free water, they don't want to review the tariff with a small increase," he said.
He said giving out free water, an allocation the state government gives to the poor, has led to the state running out of supply and said Pakatan has not been realistic.
"Selangor Mentri Besar (Khalid Ibrahim) has stopped water rationing, but can he guarantee no water rationing in future?" said Najib.
Selangor's dams hit a low over the past months due to unusually dry weather, worsened by pollution in some supplies, forcing the state to implement over a month of water rationing.
However the dry spell has also hit other states including Perak and Johor, where water rationing was also conducted.
Selangor's water rationing ended this week after rainfall replenished most of the dams and the state took added measures to increase supply from alternative sources.
(More to follow from Malaysiakini)
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