Water Consumption In Malaysia Journal

The mwig contains a wealth of data that truly reflects the state of the water services in malaysia.

Water consumption in malaysia journal. Water use in malaysia total by sector and by year. Says is malaysia s social news company. This has not encouraged water conservation but instead led to water wastage and overuse both of which undermine the sustainability of water. It has been estimated that each of us enjoy a per capita renewable water of more than 5 000 m3 per person per year.

The daily water consumption benchmark set up the un is 165 litres per day for every person. Comprehensively understanding water consumption behavior is necessary to design efficient and effective water use strategies. See world total and list by country. Pakistan journal of nutrition 13 5.

Less than 10 of the present water use in malaysia is from groundwater resources 1. 165 litres of water is enough to meet a person s basic daily needs such as showering. It provides reliable impartial and timely information to enable stakeholders including decision makers service providers suppliers consultants academicians and consumers to follow the progress and assess the performance of the nation s water and wastewater services. Inefficient agricultural water use agriculture uses about 68 of total water consumption in malaysia but irrigation efficiency is 50 at best in the larger irrigation schemes and less than 40 in the.

In 2013 the average water consumption per day of malaysians was 210 litres while in 2014 the average consumption has risen by 2 liters which means 212 litres or about 141 bottles of 1 5 litres. Based on total volume of water produced in year 2008 at 4 196 000 mly and a naonal average nrw of 36 3 the. Years with missing data left empty. Despite global efforts to identify the factors that affect domestic water consumption those related to domestic water use in rural regions have not been sufficiently studied particularly in villages that have gained access to improved water supply.

A group of researchers from malaysia have proposed a system that recycles used ablution water within a close loop system for use toilet flushing general washing green roof and plants watering. Water use can include water used and then returned to its source renewable resource. In malaysia we are blessed with an abundance of rainfall and water resources.