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What will it take to focus Singaporean minds on the water issue?
A potential sixth desalination plant and the Albatross revelations offer a moment to reflect on our water journey – and what it means for ties with Malaysia.
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The projection now is that recycled water and desalination can supply up to 85 per cent of Singapore’s water demand by 2060.
ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
How hard is it to get Singaporeans to focus on the existential reality of our water supply?
A February 1995 editorial in this newspaper offers a clue. It followed a warning from then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong that the Republic faced a supply crisis within two decades, thanks to rising consumption and what was by then a long impasse over renewing the water agreements with Malaysia.
