SEBERANG PERAI, Feb. 19 -- A duck breeding farm in Sungai Lembu here was found to have discharged farm waste into Sungai Air Merah which then flowed into Sungai Kulim in Kedah.

Penang Agrotechnology, Food Security and Cooperative Development Committee chairman Fahmi Zainol assured the public that the site of the farm waste discharge was far from the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) water treatment plant.

"I hope the public remain calm as the pollution does not affect the water supply in Penang and it does not affect Kedah as well," he told reporters after inspecting the site of the pollution and the two farms nearby, a duck breeding farm and a pig farm.

He said the site of pollution was at least 14km away from the PBAPP water tr...