Singapore Supplies Additional Treated Water to Malaysia

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Singapore Supplies Additional Treated Water to Malaysia

Singapore’s water agency is now supplying treated water to Malaysia due to pollution in river catchment. 

This news might come as surprise, considering that Singapore has no natural water sources and has invested heavily in water resilience programme . Malaysia, on the other hand, has an abundance of water and used to be Singapore's only supply of fresh water through a pipeline system connecting the two countries. This development is an excellent case study of the importance of integrated water management and good governance.  

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Singapore’s water agency PUB has, at Johor’s request, supplied additional treated water to Malaysia after production there was disrupted due to pollution.

In response to media queries, PUB said on Sunday (Jan 6) that an additional 6 million gallons per day (mgd) of treated water was supplied between Jan 2 and 4.

The PUB said production at Johor’s water plants was disrupted recently by pollution to the river catchment. PUB’s Johor River Waterworks was not affected by the incident.

“At Johor’s request, PUB helped to tide Johor residents over the water supply disruption by turning on PUB’s Pasir Gudang offtake and supplying an additional 6 millions of gallons per day (mgd) of treated water between Jan 2 and Jan 4, 2019,” a spokesman said.

The 6 mgd was on top of the 16 mgd that Singapore usually supplies Johor.

Read the full article by Grace Leong on The Straits Times 

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