Hundreds of residents of Sungai Ramping become seriously ill after drinking tap water drawn from groundwater that supplied municipal wellswells that had been contaminated by the corporate utility's systematic disposal of waste chromium at its nearby facility. Similarly, a group of families in Sungai Ramping Kecil town contended that the tap water supplied by the city is contaminated with, among other things, a volatile organic compound called trichloroethylene (TCE), ingestion of which causes their children to contract a severe illness. A contentious issue is which of the corporate company operating near the river feeding the municipal wells supplying the town's tap water has caused the TCE contamination.

Advise the residents of Sungai Ramping and Sungai Ramping Kecil :-

a) As to the respective laws applicable against the polluters. (10 marks)

**using Malaysian Act**