Penang water - stress, new (higher) tariffs, cleaner water???

The Penang Government is pretty ambitious with regard to water.....it wants to install a new membrane filter system that can filter out almost 99% of all disease causing pathogens.......then it want to raise the water tariffs because Pg is a water stressed state...whatever that means.......and of course reduce the non-revenue water from 20% to 15%......

If we can get clean water without the need again to filter it at home......we don't mind paying a higher tariff....but installing new filters are just not enough.....the pipes carrying the water needs to be changed......the water leaving the filration and treatment plants is probably very clean...yeah even up to WHO standards but by the time it reaches our home......the water had picked up so much muck along the way...that it arrives at our home in a dirty state....such is our water....we need to change the pipes....and in Pg.....that's a monumental task......most of our pipes are ancient......