KUALA LUMPUR: Amid the sweltering weather in Malaysia, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said on Tuesday (May 16) that the government has no immediate plans to declare the heatwave an emergency. However, the government is prepared to do so if necessary, he reportedly said after chairing a Nati
Ahmad Zahid, who is also the chairman of the National Disaster Management Committee, said that cloud seeding operations will be done at catchment areas for seven dams across the country where the water level has receded.“This will be done soon so that the people whose water sources come from these dams will not have to suffer from water shortages,” he was quoted as saying by The Star on Tuesday.
Ahmad Zahid reportedly added that the National Water Service Commission had been tasked to work with water operators and local authorities on the best way to distribute the domestic use of water should there be a shortage., including co-curricular and sports activities, following an announcement by Deputy Education Minister Lim Hui Ying on May 3.She also said that school administrators are to take precautionary measures and monitor the daily weather conditions.
“According to our guidelines, as long as the temperature exceeds 37 degrees Celsius , the state education departments will monitor and close the schools,” Ms Lim said, according to Malay Mail.to school. "Taking into account the circumstances, the Education Ministry agrees to give special permission to students, teachers and other support staff to use modest athletic clothing during the hot weather,” said the ministry’s deputy director-general of school operations, Dr Norisah Suhaili, in a letter dated May 2.
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