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Singapore is a sovereign city state, situated on one large island and around 60 islets, lying 1.5° north of the Equator. It has a tropical rainforest climate and experiences around 2,400 mm of precipitation per annum. Storms occur in the form of monsoon surges, Sumatra squalls and sea breeze-induced thunderstorms. Singapore has 32 major rivers, more than 8,000 km of waterways and 17 reservoirs, all within a space of around 700 km2. Currently, 67 percent of the land area is water catchment, with the aim of increasing this to 90 percent.
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Brears, R.C. (2018). Singapore Becoming a Blue-Green City. In: Blue and Green Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59258-3_8
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