HOW SINGAPORE AN ISLAND BRINGS FRESH WATER TO ITS PEOPLE BENEFITNG HUMANITY WITH FRESH WATER CREATION TECHNOLOGY

Two-thirds of Singapore’s land area is used for water catchment. Increasing the water catchment area will be challenging and costly given our urban density.
A comprehensive network of drains, canals and rivers channel rainfall to Singapore’s 17 reservoirs for storage.

Singapore imports water from Malaysia under the 1962 Water Agreement, which allows us the full and exclusive right to draw up to 250 million gallons of water per day (mgd) from the Johor River. The Agreement will expire in 2061.

Singapore has 5 NEWater plants which further purify treated used water to produce ultra-clean water. This process requires the use of advanced membrane and ultraviolet disinfection technologies, which makes producing NEWater costly.

Desalination is the process of using reverse osmosis to produce pure drinking water, by pushing seawater through membranes to remove dissolved salts and minerals.
We currently have 2 desalination plants, and 3 new plants will be built by 2020.

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