Peka has lambasted the Kelantan government for allegedly providing inadequate water infrastructure to residents, causing an over-reliance on untreated groundwater.

The environmental group’s president, Rajesh Nagarajan, stressed that it is “completely unacceptable” for a state government to behave in such a “lackadaisical and negligent manner” in issues involving basic human rights and people’s welfare.

“The root of the issue lies in...