Water with healing power

SELANGOR. People are collecting water at a hill in Jalan Baru Selayang-Ulu Yam, about 10km from the Batu Dam. They are seen almost daily squatting or sitting next to six PVC pipes on the side of the road, causing a traffic jam, especially on weekends.

They come with bottles, plastic containers and mineral water bottles to collect what many swear is miracle water, which can cure sickness and restore health.

Regulars visitors to this natural spring claim that the water that trickles from the pipe has got more health giving nutrients and minerals and tastes better than the usual pipe water that has chlorine. Some people also mentioned that many with diabetes, backaches, gout and other chronic diseases have been healed.

Stories of many sick people restored to health by drinking the water has spread by word of mouth.

“A person from a laboratory tested the water and told me that it contains a lot of minerals,’’ said Kuaishah, who stays in Bukit Beruntung.