NEWater

NEWater is a name given to our own reclaimed water, produced by the Singapore's Public Utilities Board in 1998. It is actually from sewage water, processed and purified to be clean and consumable water that we have now. To get such water, that is when processes like micro-filtration and reverse osmosis come in. We will not go in depth about the processes in attaining the clean water, because it will be too lengthy.


NEWater is also one mean to reduce our reliance on imported water from our neighbour, Malaysia. With that, all the more we should propose more ideas on coming up with alternative sources of water. For the time being, we Singaporeans have to try saving water or reduce our usage of water.

Imported Water

Everyone knows that a large fraction of Singapore's fresh water is from Malaysia. But what some may not know is that our agreements with Malaysia will end soon, in the long run. Singapore may get her last few drops of water on 2061. Imagine if we do not even have such agreements. Singaporeas will even have a harder time to turn to other sources for water.