Group assignment (CO3)

From the given case study (based on the earlier draw carried out in class on 2 Oct 2014), describe
and discuss the ethical issues might have been at least partly responsible for the failure. Relate the
impact on financial, economics, society, technology and environment. The report should also include:
1. What failed?
2. Why it failed?
3. Possible corrective actions
4. Who was at fault, and why?
Describe how a lack of "professionalism" or "conscientiousness" may have helped lead to this failure.
Please include a listing of any references you might have used.
You must use at least one newspaper or recent journal account as one of your references.
Your report should be type written and minimum four pages long. Please list references and indicate
where they are used in the text of the paper!

Sept 7, 2010 Some 1.2 million residents or 300,000 households throughout Petaling, Hulu
Langat, Sepang and Kuala Langat districts were affected by Semenyih water treatment plants
shutdown due to contamination.

Contamination triggers
Semenyih water plant shutdown
BY SHAZWAN MUST AF A K AMAL
Published: 7 September 2010

PETALING JAYA, Sept 7 Some 1.2 million residents or 300,000

households throughout Petaling, Hulu Langat, Sepang and Kuala
Langat districts will be affected by Semenyih water treatment plants
shutdown at 1.40am this morning due to contamination.
It is understood that the plants operation has been suspended due to
contamination of Sungai Kembong, its fresh water source, by a nearby landfill.
In an immediate response, Syabas said that the Selangor rivers raw water was
contaminated by leachate leaking from a breached dyke in the landfill.
The Leachate contains both dissolved and suspended material drained from the landfill.

The plant was closed immediately upon detecting high content of ammonia in
the water, at 6.41mg per litre, which is above the health safety standard of 1.5mg
per litre, put into place by the health ministry.
A yellow alert emergency plan has been into place. We are now trying to
redistribute water from other treatment plants to the affected areas, said Syabas
chief executive officer DatukRuslan Hassan in a statement today.
Ruslan said that although it had prepared 32 water tankers and 300 water
tanks to supply water to the affected residents, not all residents may have access
to the supply as the affected areas were large.
However, since the areas affected are large, the capacity to deliver water may be
limited, he said.
The plant is operated by Konsortium ABASS SdnBhd, a state government
subsidiary.
Ruslan said that Syabas was unable to determine when the treatment plant would
resume operating because they have to clean the river water and repair the
breached landfills wall.

"If the recovery process cannot be completed by this evening and the water level
in the reservoirs continues to drop to the critical stage, Syabas will have to raise
the Emergency Response Plan (ERP) to the red code," he said.
Following the activation of the yellow code, Syabas has set up 24-hour crisis
operation centres in the four districts to undertake monitoring as well as to
disseminate information to the affected residents.

Pencemaran: LojiRawatan Air Sungai

Semenyihditutup
07/09/2010 1:57pm

Oleh MOHD. ISWAN SHAFIQ MAT ISA

KUALA LUMPUR 7 Sept. LojiRawatan Air Sungai Semenyihditutupsementarahariinimulaipukul 1.40

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The fault that cause this case happen

Water disruptions cause economic losses for the country in addition to degradation of
standard of living. Unscheduled water disruptions make consumers miserable as information is
not sent to them on a timely manner. Consumers are confused and frustrated as they start to
question the capability and competency of authorities to look after the raw water supply system.
Since most of the contamination happened due to the seepage of leachate from landfills, it has
shown that poor planning and development are the major factors.This is evident from unplanned
and rapid small scale industries and palm oil plantations are mushrooming alongside along
Sungai Semenyih. Furthermore, unsanitary landfill such as Bukit Chembong that was built
within the water catchment area of Sungai Semenyih is unacceptable land use planning in a
water catchment area.

On the other hand, weak enforcement by the state authorities has led to the unscrupulous
discharge of untreated industrial wastes and effluent into the river by irresponsible industry
players along Sungai Semenyih (Mohammad, 2011).

Some government agencies blame erratic weather such as heavy rainfall causingthe
overflow of leachate into the rivers. With advancements in engineering and technological knowhow, these kinds of excuses are not only lame but retarded.

Corrective action
1) State government must gazette more water catchment areas and make sure these areas are
protected and no development surrounding these areas, especially Sungai Langat Basin
which is a crucial water catchment for more 1 million consumers in Selangor, Kuala
Lumpur and Putrajaya. Additionally , a concrete plan for water resource management
must be implemented and made available for stakeholders, including consumer
organizations
2) As for industry, they must play an active role in ensuring that water or effluent being
discharge from their premises are treated instead of direct discharge into the river
3) Development near water treatment plant such as the landfill must be built according to
the safety guidelines and the operation of the landfill must be monitored from time to
time to
ensure the landfill operates normally and no contamination to the water treatment plant.
Landfill must be upgraded to sanitary landfill to ensure the safety of the water quality in
the surrounding areas.
4) Encourage the usage of alternative water source such as the rainwater harvesting and also
increase the awareness of consumer on water usage and conservation.
5) Energy, water and food security will be major issues and problem in the years since so far
there is still no real commitment in handling this climate change issue although the
awareness is high. Therefore, actions such as establishment of national climate fund and
also technology transfer with developed countries will be the crucial matters in
combating climate change. Projection must be reviewed from time to time in order to
keep up with the population growth, current impact of the climate change and also
technology available in order to face the wrath of climate change in the years to come.

impact:
1) industry:

Probably every manufactured product uses water during some part of

the production process. Industrial water use includes water used for
such purposes as fabricating, processing, washing, diluting, cooling, or
transporting a product; incorporating water into a product; or for
sanitation needs within the manufacturing facility. Some industries
that use large amounts of water produce such commodities as food,
paper, chemicals, refined petroleum, or primary metals.

A planned or unplanned shutdown of your water treatment plant can cause much anxiety at any
operations facility. Where the shutdown is planned an alternative water treatment method is
required to allow other site operations to continue. During these shutdowns, a full-scale
temporary water treatment service can bypass the permanent water treatment plant, to allow
complete operations to continue. When a shutdown is unexpected, decreased treated water
availability can compromise site operations and have disastrous consequences downstream. The
urgency here is to protect the production facility, shutdown the failing water treatment plant and
find an alternative source of treated water, all while trying to prevent loss of production.
Following this, analysis and repairs can take place. Direct impact of water treatment plant
failures has been known to result in entire production runs suffering damage and requiring
complete disposal, leaving large unrecoverable costs. The indirect impact of a shutdown can be
reduced production capacity or even a total site operational shutdown. This hampers the revenue
generation and profitability of the site as investigating the causes and solutions can be time
intensive.

4.1.2 Environmental Impacts

the water in the sewage are highly influence by the bacteria and leachate that will infect the
environment. the pathogens and bacteria, inadequately treated sewage can impact the health of
an aquatic ecosystem by depleting the available oxygen and creating an imbalance of nutrients
for organisms living in the contaminated environment. Similarly, untreated sewage contains high
concentrations of phosphorous and nitrogen, which promote plant growth. With this sudden
nutrient increase, algae in the contaminated waterways can grow very quickly, collect on the
water surface in unattractive, green algae blooms, and drive away normal aquatic life.

society
water is the most needed natural resource in our life. most of everything in daily life is connected
to used of water. it will be a huge effect if there is no water in our daily life. building, factory,
house, shop, restaurant, hospital, and etc. all used water to operate in 24 hours. could we imagine
if there is no water in the hospital? this thing same goes to our house, how can we cook, drink,
bath, eat, clean, and etc. without water.