Flexibility and adaptability crucial in Singapore's coastal protection measures: PUB

Workers carrying out maintenance work at the Marina Barrage dam earlier this month. PHOTO: AFP
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SINGAPORE - Singapore must guard against rising sea levels and other climate uncertainties, but land scarcity has also reinforced the need to be flexible and adaptive.

National water agency PUB is looking to enhance current measures and adopt multi-functional solutions - which are to be identified through site-specific studies - for the nation's coastlines.

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