SEREMBAN: Residents in parts of Port Dickson and Jelebu may have to bear with more water supply disruptions or low water pressure due to the deterioration in raw water quality from the Gunung Berembun catchment area, says Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun.

       The Mentri Besar said heavy rains in recent months had caused some 500 landslips in the area, causing soil and other debris to flow into rivers that supply raw water to treatment plants in Klawang and Sg Linggi.

       "The treatment plants are not able to treat the water because it gets too murky with suspended solids whenever it rains heavily.

       "And when this happens, the operations at the treatment plants have to be temporarily stopped, causing disruption in supply to some areas," he said.

       Aminuddin said the areas affected in Port Dickson included Lukut, Bandar Springhill and Chuah while in Jelebu it was Klawang and its surrounding areas.

       He said supply to these areas was also affected on Tuesday night following heavy rain earlier in the day.

       "I apologise for the inconvenience and we will try our best to resolve this," he said.

       He added that state water concessionaire Syarikat Air Negri Sembilan had also sent water tankers to the affected areas.

       Treated water was also transferred from the Seremban Selatan pond to the Bandar Springhill pond to be supplied to the affected consumers.