Clean Water Project

lang Valley White is not a colour selection provided by ICI. That is the colour of your once pristine white shirts and other clothes after 6 months of washing in the water provided by the authority.

The good news is that the “Clean Water Project”, mooted in May 2005, has finally kicked off – after a year of deliberation and negotiations with the Management Committee of Astana.

For the uninitiated, our water supply is routed through the water storage facilities sited on the land adjoining Astana. Similarly, the sewage from Astana is routed through “our” system sited next to King’s Gate. Astana and Tiara are like Siamese Twins – we share the “incomings” and the “outgoings.”

The Project has been planned to be carried out in 3 major phases.

The first and second phase of the project will be shared with Astana Condominiums while the third phase is internal to Tiara Damansara.

The first phase, which has been completed lately, is the installation of the water filter at Astana.

The second phase is the cleaning of the sump and the large storage tank in Astana—the one with the red Great Eastern Logo. This is expected to be completed by mid-July of this year. This is the costliest part of the project.

Once the main facilities are “cleaned up”, clean(er) water will be coming through the pipes into our Tiara property. This is where the third phase comes in: each and every water storage tank in each building block—all 41 tanks—will be cleaned. The Management plans to start the cleaning of the tanks from 1^st August, 2006 with the blocks nearest to Queens Gate down toward Kings Gate. The schedule has yet to be fixed.

One wonders what we will get for all the cost and trouble. What we should not expect to get is “clean water” as espoused by the trades people pushing RO filters and Mineral Pots. The Clean Water Project is expected to filter up to between 7 to 10 microns of sedimentation. This should remove most of the sedimentation, rust, asbestos and other larger nasty stuff that has been traditionally supplied by the authorities along with our water.

If you desire to have really clean water, you should consider installing a separate filter system to remove the sedimentation down to 1 micron or invest in a system that will take out “Total Dissolved Solids” (TDS). This will require filters with capacities of less than .001 microns.

We expect clean(er) water to be available to all residents of Tiara by the end of September, 2006.

We hope to see a lot more white shirts by Christmas.