IPOH: Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad will meet Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow over Phase 1 of the Sungai Perak Raw Water Transfer Scheme (SPRWTS) project.
Saarani said the meeting would be held today in his office at Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan here at 3pm.
"The meeting will be held today. We are not sure what details they want to highlight, we will know soon," he said.
He added that no decision has been made so far as he needs to listen to all details from Chow during the meeting.
He told the media this after launching the 'Jelajah Denai Sungai Perak' logo at his office here today.
It was reported on Mac 31 last year that the state government has not decided yet whether to sell raw water to Penang.
Saarani had said the state government was instead giving priority to channelling the natural resource to the domestic areas first, especially the Kerian district.
It was reported that the SPRWTS, part of the Penang Water Supply Initiative 2050 (PWSI 2050) to mitigate Penang's raw water risks until 2030, was proposed following an independent masterplan study commissioned by the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) in 2009.
According to PBAPP, Sungai Perak was the best option as its raw water resource is presently underutilised.
As such, the Penang government and PBAPP had sought to tap Sungai Perak as the second or alternative raw water resource for the state since 2011.
The SPRWTS involved the construction of a water tunnel to channel raw water from Sungai Perak upstream to Sungai Ijok, which would flow to Sungai Kerian.
The raw water would then be extracted from Sungai Kerian, where a water treatment plant would be built on the Penang side of the border.