1.   Watkins have, for more than thirty years, been using the shaft to dump effluent from tanks.

2.   Cities could skip a treatment step before dumping effluent offshore.

3.   For decades, factories have been dumping untreated effluents into the Kishon River, which empties into the Mediterranean.

4.   Malacca River Management Committee chairman Datuk Ahmad Hamzah said factories would now think twice before dumping effluents into rivers as they can be easily detected by authorities.

5.   Once-subsidized factories shut down and stopped dumping effluent into the Black Sea.