It seems we can say bye bye to imported water in
2011
New Changi NEWATER plant will make SG almost need not
import water!!
A 50 mgd (million gallon per day) or 227,000 m3
NEWATER plant will be ready by 2010.
Before desalination and NEWATER
Local water 50%
MY water 50%
After desalination and NEWATER
Local 50%
Desalination 10% for few years already
NEWATER 30% ,by 2010.
Total local water 90 %.
Note:SG water catchment area will increase from 50 % of main
island
to two-third area by 2011 when Marina Reservoir is completed.
This has not been factored in the above estimation.
1.Common wisdom is half of SG water imported from
MY
before NEWater and desalination water running in
our pipes.
This figure is secret lah.
1.1 NEWATER already met 15 % of all SG
demand,''The combined capacities of the four NEWater
plants already meet 15 percent of Singapores water demand, a
target originally set to be met by 2010. ''-
''With this new plant at Changi and the expansion of the Kranji and
Bedok NEWater plants, the total capacity will meet about 30
percent of our total water demand by 2011.''----PUB 4
September 2007 press release.
Note:SG daily demand is about 300,000,000 gallon [UK] = 1 363.827
megaliter=
1.36 million m3 or 1,360,000 cubic meter.
www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm
1.2 Desalination
some 135,000 m3 or 10% of daily need.
By 2010.NEWATER provide 30% and desalination 10%
for daily demand.
Local water already provide some 50%,total make up 90%
of daily demand.
It is interesting that our sales of potable water is
dropping
TREND OF WATER DEMAND
year....................2002......03.........04.......05......06
Water treated..1,315...1,360....1,369.....1352...1399( m3 in
1000/day)
Sale of
potable...1,259...1,224...1,203....1206...1230(m3..in
1000/day)
water
Domestic...............687......690......686.....694..702( m3 in
1000/day)
Non--domestic.......572......534......517.....512...508( m3 in
1000/day)
population(m)......4.17.....4.19.....4.24....4.35...4.48
sale of potable water in liters/capita/ /day
...........................302(2002)....................275(2006)
GDP
162,491million(2002)............ 209,679million(2006)
GDP per m3 /day $353(2002)........$467 per m3/day
click me
Note the huge drop in non--dom water most likely
replaced by NEWater and industral water.
Sale of NEWater..81,000m3/day(BY 2011,MAX CAPACITY IS
450,000M3)
Sale of Industrial Water..112,000m3/day
Volume of used water treated....1,399,000 m3/day
Water Demand : Domestic water consumption per capita
162,160,158 liters /capita for 2004,2005,2006
source of water
soldKey ENV data 2007
