PUTRAJAYA: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof said that the government, through the National Water Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM...
: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof said that the government, through the National Water Research Institute of Malaysia , has been actively conducting research on the impact of new pollutants on water quality in several river basins in Malaysia under the 12th Malaysia Plan .
According to Fadillah, who is also the Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation, the contaminants include endocrine-disrupting chemicals , antimicrobial resistance and microplastics. “One of the new pollutants gaining international attention is microplastic pollution in Malaysia’s water sources.
“Microplastics, defined by the WHO as plastic fragments less than 5 mm in size, enter the river system through various pathways, primarily surface water runoff, wastewater effluents , industrial effluents, and decomposed plastic waste,” he explained. Fadillah said this in his speech at the 1st National Seminar on Microplastics, organised by NAHRIM, in collaboration with Frontier Laboratory Ltd., Japan and the Malaysian Water Association, here today.
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