This is the second year that the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), a global showcase for policymakers, industry leaders and experts, is being staged.

More than 140 companies have taken up 90 per cent of the exhibition space at Suntec Singapore for the five day event, which starts on June 22.

Of these, more than 50 homegrown companies will display their latest water innovations and solutions. Half will be participating for the first time.

PUB Chief Executive Khoo Teng Chye said: 'With the current economic climate, the search for sustainable and cost-effective water management solutions is ever more urgent.

'The water week will enable policy makers, industry players, and experts to tap on a global reservoir of perspectives and economically-viable solutions.'

This comes as the new administration in the United States turns its focus to environmental technologies as one of the drivers of growth in the future.

The meeting will also showcase Singapore's infrastructure and technology development.

One highlight will be the official opening of Singapore's biggest water reclamation plant in Changi by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on June 23.

The $3.65 billion project, sited on 32-hectare of reclaimed land, will treat 800,000 cubic metres of used water daily, either to be discharged into the sea or used to produce purified Newater, in a plant on the same location.

Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.