GEORGE TOWN: Stage two of the water supply recovery commences at 6am today with optimal pumping of treated water from the Sungai Dua Water Treatment Plant (WTP) to Penang Island.
According to the Penang Water Supply Corporation, it is targeting to normalise water supply for 495,065 consumers by 6am tomorrow.
"Consumers closest to the Bukit Dumbar Reservoir and Pumping Station Complex will receive water supply first.
"Supply will then spread outwards and southwards towards the area in the southwest district," it said today.
PBAPP said this was in accordance with the set sequence of recovery following every 're-start' of the Sungai Dua WTP.
During a working visit to the Sungai Dua WTP yesterday, Deputy Energy Transition and Public Utilities Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir said water supply had normalised for about 60 per cent or 350,000 of the 590,000 households affected by the four-day disruption throughout the state following the shutdown of the Sungai Dua WTP.
He said water supply had normalised in the three districts in Seberang Prai and the northeast district on the island.
He said that in the island's southwest district, only five per cent of those affected had received water supply.
PBAPP said the Sungai Dua emergency response repair work had been completed as scheduled.
This was because when they shut down the water supply on Wednesday morning, the drop in water pressure dislodged the clamp that they had installed on a leaking section of the 1.35m underwater pipe last month.
"We have also completed the Sungai Prai testing and gradual decommissioning.
"Stage three and four of the water supply recovery will proceed as planned after that," it added.