TAIPING: The area near the jetty is dry, with caked mud, and the waters around the Orang Utan Island are at less than 0. 75m deep, falling from the usual 2m. The Bukit Merah dam near here is teetering at dangerously low levels, threatening about 12, 000ha of padi crops and thousands of arowana fish bred in this area. With the La Nina dry weather event hitting the area, large swathes of the dam’s farther reaches have dried up, leaving only a brown landscape of sun-baked mud and once-submerged tre
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星报-国家
2022-06-09 00:00:00.0
