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In addition to ‘green and clean’ in the service of national identity, equality and attractiveness, sustainability of Singapore with regard to water supply and use is of strategic national concern. Indeed, it is expected to achieve this by 2061 when Singapore’s remaining water agreement with neighboring Malaysia will end, even though imported sources from Malaysia account for 40% or so of overall supply as of 2009. Moreover, sustainability in this regard is so strategically important that all other matters of national concern ‘bend at the knee’, so to speak, in abeyance to this single outcome and issue. At present Singapore is dependent upon what are called its ‘four national taps’ as its supply strategy. In addition to importation, ‘local water catchment’ provides some supply, largely by way of collecting and channeling rainwater to Singapore’s 17 reservoirs via a network of rivers, canals and drains.
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Rowe, P.G., Hee, L. (2019). Water Resources and Sustainability. In: A City in Blue and Green. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9597-0_4
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