Collecting Cameron Highlands Hillslope Water for Health

Often when I go to Cameron Highlands, I see people collecting water from the hillslope. I have heard that the water is considered healthy because of the perception of being sourced naturally from nature. Yet on the other hand we do not know the actual source and whether there is any contamination to the water collected. Of course people want to improve their health wherever possible and if it worked for them, they will collect it and drink it. Personally I'm not so keen to drink it unless absolutely no choice (such as going jungle hiking and camping), Anyway it is good to know and keep in view.

Frequent water collectors speak of its boost in energy
Story and photos by Fong Kee Soon
Friday February 17, 2012

FOR more than a decade now, people have been flocking to collect free mineral water from a hillslope at KM10 of the Simpang Pulai-Kampung Raja road leading up to Cameron Highlands.

They believe that the water is therapeutic and can ease joint pains as well as able to boost the energy and stamina of those who consume it.

Auxiliary policeman Zaine Mohd Silan would head out to the spot once a month with enough plastic bottles to collect some 100 litres of water. It is a chore the 56-year-old has been carrying out for the last 10 years.

For consumption: Nor Suhaimi showing two large
plastic bottles filled with the mineral water.

He believes wholeheartedly that the water is safe as it is crystal clear and leaves no residue at the bottom of the containers even after some time.

"Rice cooked with the water also stays fresh longer," he claimed, adding that the water had never made him sick.

The water, added Zaine, has never stopped flowing all these years.

We want water, not assurances

We want water, not assurances
Sunday June 3, 2007

I BELIEVE many residents, including myself, will be grateful if The Star can highlight the water woes in the Cameron Highlands.

Since the morning of May 30, the taps have run dry. On May 31, except for a brief period (9am-9.30am) there was no water to wash, bathe, clean, cook, etc.

It was just two months ago that the Pahang water dept director was quoted in your newspaper as saying water woes in Cameron Highlands will be a thing of the past now that the Kuala Terla dam is operational.

We don't want assurances, what we need is water.

Khoo Kheng-Hor,
Cameron Highlands, Pahang.

--The Star. Opinion.

New booster system to ensure water supply at Camerons

New booster system to ensure water supply at Camerons
Sunday February 25, 2007
By Hah Foong Lian / The Star.

Cameron Highlands: Water cuts during periods of high demand when tourists jam up this popular hill resort may be a thing of the past by next month.

This is because the new booster system at the Kuala Terlah water treatment plant here will begin operating to overcome the water supply shortage.

Pahang Water Supply Department director Datuk Ismail Mohd Noor said his department was aware of problems faced by residents living in high places at Tanah Rata and Brinchang here.

“Whenever there are too many people in Cameron Highlands, it can be a problem. But I am confident that the water shortage will be resolved by March with the commissioning of the booster system at the Kuala Terlah plant,” he said.

Ismail added that the department was keen to resolve the water woes here because it was Visit Malaysia 2007.

Greenhill Resort resident of seven years Khoo Kheng-Hor said he had been experiencing water supply disruption since Monday.

The author said the disruption had caused a lot of inconvenience and what was worse was that they were not informed when the supply would resume.

A hotelier who declined to be named said some of the guests hadchecked out earlier because there was no water supply.

“This is a perennial problem and it is not good for a place like this because this is a tourist destination.”

He added that it would help if there was more than one tanker to deliver water to those who needed it. -- The Star