Singapore, a small island off the southern tip of the Malay peninsula, currently imports nearly 40 percent of its 300-million-gallon daily demand from its neighbor.
Is Singapore self sufficient in water?
Singapore currently uses about 1.95 billion litres per day – enough to fill 782 Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to national water agency PUB.
Can you drink Singapore water?
Singapore’s tap water quality is well within the Singapore Environmental Public Health (Water Suitable for Drinking) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 and World Health Organisation (WHO) Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality. Our tap water is suitable for drinking directly from the tap without any further filtration.
Is Singapore facing water shortage?
Singapore uses about 430 million gallons of water per day, and this could double by 2060 – that’s 782 Olympic-sized swimming pools! Water is a precious and scarce resource for Singapore, and our water supply remains vulnerable to factors such as climate change.
Does Singapore still buy water from Malaysia?
Do we still import water from Johor? Yes. Under the 1962 Water Agreement, we continue to draw 250 million gallons of raw water per day from the Johor River. In return, we are obliged to provide Malaysia with a daily supply of treated water up to 2% (or 5 mgd) of the water supplied to Singapore.
Does Singapore have clean water?
A Tap water in Singapore is perfectly safe to drink. The quality of our tap water is well within World Health Organisation guidelines for drinking water quality and the United States Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards.
How does Singapore treat sewage?
The DTSS uses deep tunnel sewers to convey used water entirely by gravity to centralised WRPs located at the coastal areas. The used water is then treated and further purified into ultra-clean, high-grade reclaimed water called NEWater, with excess treated effluent discharged to the sea.