IWK provides clean environment and sanitation to Malaysians for 25 years and beyond

IWK employees carry out regular checks to ensure all sewerage systems function properly.

Before the dawn breaks to cast the first daylight into our homes, the night soil man trudges through the streets to empty the buckets containing human waste, all drenched in sweat and stench during the pre-independence period. The day progresses just like any other. This was the common sight back in the 1950s. The connected sewerage system almost did not exist five decades ago. As days turned into months, and months into years, more sophisticated system such as individual and communal septic tanks, Imhoff tanks and oxidation ponds came into existence.

As a testament to the government’s commitment in ensuring proper sanitation and environmental care, Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) was brought under its wings through the Ministry of Finance Incorporated. IWK was tasked to carry out its mandate of operating and maintaining the sewerage system and desludging septic tanks, according to the Water Services Industry Act 2006.