The federal government will build a new dam and enlarge the Mengkuang dam in Penang in a bid to increase water capacity in the state by 3.8 times.
State Barisan Nasional working committee chairman, Datuk Dr Teng Hock Nan, said the RM1.2bil project would be implemented soon.
To this end, an agreement will be inked between Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng in Putrajaya on Thursday.
Dr Teng said the deal showed that the federal government had not forsaken Penang although Barisan was no longer at the helm.
“The project demonstrates that the Barisan federal government has not marginalised the state government led by the opposition pact, as claimed by Lim Guan Eng,” he told reporters here Monday.
Dr Teng said that for the past 50 years, the Barisan government had been giving attention to the state’s water supply needs, which included the construction of Air Itam, Teluk Bahang and Mengkuang dams.
