Last month’s water crisis has highlighted the need to immediately implement the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) law, business and industry groups said, with mandated transaction deadlines seen hastening the development of new supply sources.

“[W]e urge the government to develop new raw water sources in the immediate pipeline as projects of national significance and to fast-track their bureaucratic approvals by obtaining permits, in parallel rather than sequential order, while ensuring proper environmental and social safeguards are adequately put in place,” they said in a joint statement.

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