Singapore has achieved self-reliance in water and is building more capacity to meet a projected doubling in demand in the next 45 years, a minister said.
The city state, which has a contract to buy from neighbouring Malaysia more than half its current daily water requirement of 400 to 420 million imperial gallons, has been able to meet demand even when dry weather reduced the Malaysian supply, Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli said in an interview last week.
Expanded catchment areas, water recycling and desalination have helped the city-state overcome shortfalls from its Malaysian source, Masagos said. The island nation needs to build enough catchments, reservoirs and processing plants to supply the 800 million gallons a day it will consume by 2061, when the agreement to buy 250 million gallons daily from Malaysia runs out, he said.
“Because we have enough capacity, we are able to mitigate for shortfalls,” the minister said. “That’s why Singaporeans are able to see all our reservoirs full. They are totally disconnected from the fact that we are having a water problem” when parts of Malaysia have had to ration water in recent months, he said.
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The city state, which has a contract to buy from neighbouring Malaysia more than half its current daily water requirement of 400 to 420 million imperial gallons, has been able to meet demand even when dry weather reduced the Malaysian supply, Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli said in an interview last week.
Expanded catchment areas, water recycling and desalination have helped the city-state overcome shortfalls from its Malaysian source, Masagos said. The island nation needs to build enough catchments, reservoirs and processing plants to supply the 800 million gallons a day it will consume by 2061, when the agreement to buy 250 million gallons daily from Malaysia runs out, he said.
“Because we have enough capacity, we are able to mitigate for shortfalls,” the minister said. “That’s why Singaporeans are able to see all our reservoirs full. They are totally disconnected from the fact that we are having a water problem” when parts of Malaysia have had to ration water in recent months, he said.
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