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The crisis reveals decades of official inertia in dealing with long-term resource planning and decrepit water infrastructure in Sabah.
KOTA KINABALU: Heavy-to-moderate rain in Sabah has replenished many dried-out rivers, which has led to the restart of water production.
KOTA KINABALU: Heavy to moderate rains over Sabah have replenished water levels at many dried-out rivers in the state.
KOTA KINABALU: Cloud seeding operations over Sabah's drying up water catchments will continue.
The east Malaysian state is surrounded by water, but years of infrastructure neglect and an El Nino-triggered drought have brought severe shortages as tankers are deployed to supply water to villages ‘around the clock’.