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    Development-Induced Water Pollution in Malaysia: Policy Planning, Instruments for Protection and Emerging Issues
    (European Journal of Social Sciences, 2007-04-07) Professor. Abdul Rauf Ambali
    Development program is primarily the target of any government to uplift the standard of life of its people. However, in the course of these developmental programs, the basic unit of life upon which the people depends, especially water resources, becomes the price for the costs of such development activities. Hence, this is considered as trade-off between development program, which is compulsory, and degradation of environmental resources at large. The paper, therefore, examined the strategic policy planning and instruments used by the government to balance between these environmental resources and development, with special reference to water. In the course of this investigation, various environmental integration policies with development plans were examined. In addition, the strategic instruments such as polluter-pay principle, contravention licence, effluent standards and the issues associated with each of them, which are likely to affect the policy implementation procedures and/or jeopardize the objectives of the policy programs for pollution abatement were examined.