Checks at the village area of Sg Lembu here revealed that the pollution originated from a duck farm that was disposing waste that affected Sg Kulim and Sg Air Merah in Kedah.
There is no illegal logging or encroachment in the Ulu Muda Forest Reserve in Sik, said Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad in response to a non-governmental organisation's claim of water source pollution due to these activities.
State Public Health and Environment executive councillor Jamaliah Jamaluddin said the pollution was suspected to be caused by machinery maintenance premises in the Rawang industrial area based on sampling at the pollution’s endpoint and the premises.
Karamunting assemblyman Datuk George Hiew Vun Zin had urged the Sabah government to investigate pollution concerns in Sg Segaliud, the primary source of treated water for 80% of Sandakan's population.
