PETALING JAYA: Tasik Chini is not polluted, and analysis has shown its water to be clean and safe for all, says the Pahang environment department, despite the publication of photographs that seem to show otherwise.
The department said it had been monitoring the lake ever since it was declared a Unesco Biosphere Reserve in 2015.
“Data collected in 2020 and up to March this year shows the water is clean and safe for all living creatures, especially those living in the lake,” it said in a statement.
The department’s statement comes after a news report featured the allegedly polluted condition of the second largest freshwater lake in Peninsular Malaysia.
Malaysiakini recently reported that the Pahang government had approved mining operations in the vicinity of Tasik Chini in Pekan to a company linked to the royalty, despite the state’s promise to rehabilitate the lake.