Land Scarcity

Stevenson101 SG

Nobody will think that SG can be self sufficient. That is why TS had this homework question :" Why land scarcity is a problem, especially in Singapore?"

i do believe LKY intentionally wanted only portions of the country to be urbanised.

We're not really running out of land persay,

angel7030 SG

who will think SG can be self sufficient in foods,except a great advance in technology.

do u dare to eat such food? 10 days veggie,instead of 3 months,

,one year pig to replace 4 years pig etc

well, we are surrounded by sea, eat seafoods can liao mah. Fishing village also can survive why we cannot. Hmmm..tonite go eat black pepper crabs and stop listening to all these craps

lionnoisy SG

question is without purchasing/recyling water, how long can that last ? To answer TS's very basic homework question.

We MUST need recycling water,but can forgo import water not later than 2015,

if we choose to do so!!BUt we wont waive our rights.Right?

Need for water conservation tax

Singapore's water supply from local sources has been diversified and made more robust with the introduction of Newater and desalinated water, as well as the development of additional local catchments including Marina, Punggol and Serangoon reservoirs.PUB is confident of ensuring Singapore's self-sufficiency in water supply if need be.

PUB thanks Mr Chan for his comments.
Chan Yoon Kum
Assistant Chief Executive
PUB

@@@@@@@@

Pl note there is no time frame mentioned in this reply.

last time i think GCT put a meaningless time frame at 2061 that we can

self sufficient in water.wat the hell PUB needs a Asst.CE to answer

a forum letter?Have PUB want to send any message to SG people?

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

u can see my many calculations in old thread listed in my first reply today.

2.recycling is a must,like California

Now desalination plant provide abt 10% of needs.

NEWater will provide 30 % by 2011,100 % more than previously announced.

Thats by 2011,40 % of water from sea and sewage!!

BUT NO WORRY.Factories,like wader Fabs,oil refinery etc,take up almost

all NEWater.98 to 99%.Ok?NEWater is mainly aim for industries,

air cond cooling etc,not meant for drinking.Out of tap water

in your home or office,only one % ,yes one,come from NEWater,

after blending with rain water in reservoirs.

We still have Industrial Water to cut down demand of potable water,

like NEWater do so.

lionnoisy SG

i do believe LKY intentionally wanted only portions of the country to be urbanised.

We're not really running out of land persay,

There are plently of parks etc for u to enjoy.

Park Connectors is very fun lah.Marina Barrage primary and secondary stydents must see....

go yo national park board web site lah....south ridge,wow!!

lionnoisy SG

anyway, fyi..you are kinda consuming such food already. Without an advancement in technology we would probably have suffered the fate Thomas Malthus predicted.

Oh ya.I must have eaten too much GM foods with genes of craps lah...

ha ha.therefore,i am a lion as well as a crab.

lionnoisy SG

u can see fr below that sale of potable water since 2002 to 2008

do not increase with population and GDP .1.26 million m3 per day.No change.

why?Thanks to desalination and NEWater!!

Key Environmental Statistics

Water Resource Management

http://www.sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/200078

How much of our land area is designated as water catchment, and are we going to increase...

lionnoisy SG

kramnave SG

We MUST need recycling water,but can forgo import water not later than 2015,

if we choose to do so!!BUt we wont waive our rights.Right?

Need for water conservation tax

PUB thanks Mr Chan for his comments.
Chan Yoon Kum
Assistant Chief Executive
PUB

@@@@@@@@

Pl note there is no time frame mentioned in this reply.

last time i think GCT put a meaningless time frame at 2061 that we can

self sufficient in water.wat the hell PUB needs a Asst.CE to answer

a forum letter?Have PUB want to send any message to SG people?

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

u can see my many calculations in old thread listed in my first reply today.

2.recycling is a must,like California

Now desalination plant provide abt 10% of needs.

NEWater will provide 30 % by 2011,100 % more than previously announced.

Thats by 2011,40 % of water from sea and sewage!!

BUT NO WORRY.Factories,like wader Fabs,oil refinery etc,take up almost

all NEWater.98 to 99%.Ok?NEWater is mainly aim for industries,

air cond cooling etc,not meant for drinking.Out of tap water

in your home or office,only one % ,yes one,come from NEWater,

after blending with rain water in reservoirs.

We still have Industrial Water to cut down demand of potable water,

like NEWater do so.

Dude, if you are adverse to consuming food derived from a "great advancement in technology", why would you want to consume recycled water, of which they are already blending into our reservoirs ?!

All the the things you have said in your posts are just solutions to a problem. The problem of land scarcity.

I'm not saying that we will run out of land or we will die. I'm just saying that there is a problem of land scarcity. Not just Singapore, but across the world.

There are solutions to the problem. However, the solutions may not be perfect ( The ministers have drank newater in public, didn't drop dead but nobody knows the long term effects). Suppose I smoke a cigarette on tv today. I don't die, can i safely say that cigarettes are not harmful ?

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

What long term effects of Newater can there be when it is basically just H20? No matter where it comes from there's nothing else in it unless something went wrong with the water reclaiming process.

It's a bit like saying that if I create water in a lab that is chemically, and purely water and nothing else, drinking it is somehow dangerous compared to drinking water that was "naturally made" in the skies... despite the fact that chemically and functionally, both sets of water are functionally identical.

Additonally the very non-newater tap water we have is derived from non-potable sources, and filtered through "unnatural" technologies... we don't seem to have any issues with it.

Basically barring any massive failure in the Newater process drinking Newater is about as boring as drinking chemically pure water... if anything the problem is that it is too pure and we are not getting any minerals from it.

We have to be rational about our critiques.

Fantagf SG

bump

pearlie27 SG

Land scarcity is esp a problem to Sg because many people want to come to this world number 1 country with the world number 1 gahmen!

« Previous Page