Mandates for Managing Water Resources in Mega Urban Region: Case Study for Selangor (Mandat untuk Pengurusan Sumber Air di Rantau Bandar Mega: Kajian Kes untuk Selangor)

SITI ZUHAILI HASAN, SARAH AZIZ

Abstract


ABSTRACT:  The need to manage water resources that transverses traditional administrative boundaries and legislative jurisdiction require a rethink in determining mandates, particularly in mega urban region. Malaysia practices a federated system of government, whereby the Federal Constitution of Malaysia 1957 sets out the legislative and executive remit for both Federal and State Government. Water resources in this case falls within the legislative remit of the State Government. The state of Selangor is unique as it is a mega urban region in its own right and plays host to two federated territories, with rivers coursing through them. It is also unique because it forms the bulk of the area identified as the Greater Kuala Lumpur Region earmarked for economic and social development. Both the Federated Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya sit in the middle of Selangor state with rivers coursing through them beginning and ending in Selangor. This study briefly looks at the mandates required to balance the prerequisites of managing water resources that transverses boundaries. It will look at how the state of Selangor can manage the resources through its Lembaga Urus Air Selangor Enactment 1999 to fulfil the proposed objectives of the National Water Resources Policy 2012.

Keywords: Mandates; managing water resources; legislative jurisdiction

 

ABSTRAK: Keperluan untuk menguruskan sumber air yang merentasi sempadan tradisi pentadbiran dan bidang kuasa perundangan memerlukan memikirkan semula dalam menentukan mandat, terutamanya di rantau bandar mega. Malaysia mengamalkan sistem persekutuan kerajaan, di mana Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaysia 1957 menyatakan bidang kuasa perundangan dan eksekutif untuk kedua-dua Kerajaan Persekutuan dan Kerajaan Negeri. Sumber air dalam kes ini termasuk dalam bidang kuasa perundangan kerajaan negeri. Negeri Selangor adalah unik kerana ia merupakan kawasan bandar mega yang tersendiri dan menjadi tuan rumah kepada dua wilayah persekutuan, dengan sungai-sungai yang menyusurinya. Ia juga adalah unik kerana ia membentuk sebahagian besar daripada kawasan yang dikenal pasti sebagai Greater Wilayah Kuala Lumpur dikenal pasti untuk pembangunan ekonomi dan sosial. Kedua-dua WilayahWilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur dan Putrajaya duduk di tengah-tengah negeri Selangor dengan sungai yang menyusuri melalui mereka bermula dan berakhir di Selangor. Kajian ini secara ringkas melihat kepada mandat yang diperlukan untuk mengimbangi prasyarat untuk menguruskan sumber air yang merentasi sempadan. Kajian ini juga melihat bagaimana negeri Selangor boleh mengurus sumber-sumber melalui Enakmen Lembaga Urus Air Selangor 1999 untuk memenuhi objektif yang dicadangkan oleh Dasar Sumber Air Negara 2012.

 

Kata kunci: Mandat; menguruskan sumber air; bidang kuasa perundangan


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