The Malaysian Water Setting

The Malaysian Water Setting
• Land Area – 330, 803 sq. km.⃰
• Population:
 2010 – 28.9 million*
 2020 - 34.1 million*
 2050 – 42.1 million* • GDP Projections by Economic
Sectors (see Table)
• Fairly abundant resources:
 Annual Rainfall – 973 BCM ⃰
 Evapotranspiration – 414 BCM ⃰
 GW Recharge – 63 BCM ⃰
 Surface Runoff – 496 BCM ⃰
• Consumptive Water Demand:
• 2010 – 14.8 BCM *
• 2020 – 17.2 BCM *
• 2050 – 18.2 BCM *

• Temporal and spatial variability -
some ‘water-stressed’ growth
regions (Deficit States: Perlis,
Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Selangor,
Melaka)*
• Increased flooding
• Deteriorating water quality of
water sources (rivers, lakes and
reservoirs, and groundwater)
• Emerging Climate Change
Impacts
• Fragmented management and
growing conflicts among sectors
• Way Forward since turn of the
21st
 Century - IWRM

* Source: NWRS 2011
http://www.mywp.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/materials/folder2/Keynote%20Paper%201%20-%20WR%20Users%20in%20Malaysia.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Malaysia