the REAL TRUTH of NEWATER

davidmour SG

All of us was thinking of the bad relationship between Singapore and Malaysia on the WATER issue.

The Sing Government has stir up this patriotism so that the govt can release the NEWATER into the reservoir last Friday, almost without peoples resentment, or extremely little objection.

Not only Singaporean has been manipulated by Govt again this time, even Malaysian Govt & Mahathir is make used of. THIS IS REAL POLITICIANS. None of us are conscious of this during the heated arguments.

Without this issue suddenly started by Jayakumar, PAP has extreme difficulty in convincing the people why they should drink recycle water. Now the water is released, you will not see anymore news on bilateral relationship issues from PAP. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. We can too stop the discussion.

Guess we will continue to PAY whenever govt ask to pay; MEDICAL, HOUSING & UPGRADING, WATER lastly. Shocked

Yours
David

Master -_- SG

why didnt i think of that? Confused

zacken99 SG

rubbish! Cool

camel SG

x2 Evil or Very Mad
what's your motive

Eiizumi SG

Are you a pro-SDP member? Are you anti-processed toilet water?

You seem to be anti-PAP's "Pay and Pay" policy.

You really think what we paid is not useful. The taxes we paid is to help the country as a whole. Look things at different perspectives, please. You think the next major party other than PAP will reduce taxes much if they are in government? No. Our government need that kind of money to make Singapore grow. We cannot be stagnant or we will lose out in the competitive world.

This problem of WATER is definitely would be broken, sooner or later. We have to be self-sufficient. Singaporeans does not wish to have a "weak point" held by another country.

PAP never stopped discussions. The bilateral relations never did end.The Malaysian Government did not too. It has only gone bad for a period. These up-and-downs are always there.

PAP only request that we talk all the problems as one package to have a win-win situation. The water problem and the Pedra Branca issues are the problems that ended in a way we all really did not like. The stirring of patriotic issues are made by Malaysian medias. Singaporeans only reacted in the way they should react as Singaporeans (We have heard long enough).

It was PAP who requested to review the water price, not Malaysia. Of course, PAP wanted a lower price. So people like you no need to pay so much. Both sides stood their ground and would not compromise. Malaysia kept increasing the price even though previously we have initial agreements by words and they wanted us to compromise. How can we give in to this bullying? We are patient enough.These was shown by Jayakumar reveal of the letters.

We have to take note that this patriotism is important to Singapore. It is part of our psychological defence to our Total Defence.

And guess what?

We had to give some of our water to Johor Bahru (hope they like our NEWATER Mr. Green ) because some of their main water pipe is damaged. We helped them still. See how important to each other we are? But remember, important but not vital.

the Bear SG

Dude, do you know that wars have been fought over water?

Do you know the importance of water?

Do you know the Newater or not, the stuff is clean enough to drink, maybe even too clean?

Do you believe in UFOs coming down to Earth and giving you an anal probe?

Look elsewhere for your conspiracies! There are other more pressing issues that need attention. Whatever it is, and how much I do not like the PAP, they handled this situation well, except for Lau Lee's son yammering and bragging to the press about it. That is the only thing I can fault the handling of the situation.

If you want to do something good, criticise the problematic and wrong policies and not indiscriminately slam everything the PAP does. It just shows your personal grudge against the PAP and shoots your credibility to hell.

gasband SG

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Originally posted by davidmour:
All of us was thinking of the bad relationship between Singapore and Malaysia on the WATER issue.

The Sing Government has stir up this patriotism so that the govt can release the NEWATER into the reservoir last Friday, almost without peoples resentment, or extremely little objection.

Not only Singaporean has been manipulated by Govt again this time, even Malaysian Govt & Mahathir is make used of. THIS IS REAL POLITICIANS. None of us are conscious of this during the heated arguments.

Without this issue suddenly started by Jayakumar, PAP has extreme difficulty in convincing the people why they should drink recycle water. Now the water is released, you will not see anymore news on bilateral relationship issues from PAP. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. We can too stop the discussion.

Guess we will continue to PAY whenever govt ask to pay; MEDICAL, HOUSING & UPGRADING, WATER lastly.

Yours
David

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I heard lah, i just heard lah, its Malaysia who started the whole water issue when they wanted to renegotiate the price, so what the arse are u toking abt?

Gun SG

Dear David,
Notice that this is your 1st post in this forum. Welcome !

Politics aside, I do not see what other forces that had construded
the Sing gov to become self-sufficient in water which itself was
planned for even in 1970s. The KL's gov flipflopping of its
position during the water negotiation of the past 2 yrs had only
served to enhance suspicion on their intention to provide Singapore
until "doomsday".

And much to my amusement, some pple seek to ignore this and
only interested in sow distrust on Newater. I hope you aren't
one of those.

Hitakogi SG

u got better ideas of getting our H2O?
the goverment set the netwater as the last resort to malaysia plans,
the newspapers show everything, maybe we may not seen the whole fact but i still rem that the newspaper did show how many times malaysia keep changing the prices, dig out other plans etc etc .. Rolling Eyes

Typhoon SG

Maybe he’s a Malaysian…

the Bear SG

Could be... I think he's probably more like one of those nutcases, you know... the type who seriously and sincerely believe that aliens killed Marilyn Monroe and Elvis still lives and works at the 7-11 near Texas.. that type of people..

yesh SG

interesting POV from everybody… esp from davidmour… didnt think of that before. lol. we dont know what is real, so we shouldnt just assume and then take everything so seriously. might be making a big fuss out of something that isnt really there. anyway, social studies teaches us to be tolerant and sensitive, so we should be tolerant and sensitive… am i making sense?

Venus SG

but dun one stick topple whole boat of malaysians...
thr r still gd malaysians ard...
its jus like sgreans..thr r gd... thr r bad.. Cool

21Alpha SG

In that case, I have a better conspiracy theory.

The entire show was engineered by UNMO and PAP by tacit agreement. Didn't you see how GCK and Dr. M were smiling at each other in today's papers?? They could well have been saying to each other: "We really pulled a fast one this time."

The issues have been sufficiently muddled that no one really gives enough of a damn to really go through all those long-winded speeches to see who said what when and how it was responded to and so we all trust the newspaper recountings on the past events, twisted here abit, twisted there abit.

So, Mahathir gets to do some Singapore-bashing and score some political points while the S'pore gets to whip up some patrotic fervor, ease the introduction of Newater and sneak pass the unsuspecting masses add whatever you bo siong here.

Think about it, makes cents rite?? :-)

CX SG

not really... if its all an inter-gov't conspiracy, then how come we still haven't got cheap water to drink? Mr. Green

Quad SG

I think it should be this way.

Dr M had been bashing too much on Singapore. He decide to cause some landslide to breaksome pipes and get Singapore to supply water to Malaysia. So he can go soft in the forcoming negotiation in water deal and both side win.

But he forgotten that Singapore already won the moment treated water was send over to Malaysia, it got some part of me and every Singapore that had pass out. True to the words, we share and care.......

Also, Malaysia decided to stop getting treated water from Singapore from June 03 onwards, but again we beat them to it. We mix the Newwater earlier than they had anticipated. They were to thirsty to have ours.....We can now proclaim them as Malaporean.

That's what Ah Bang are for.

21Alpha SG

it's becos it's an inter-gov't conspiracy, that's why we don't have cheap water...and neither do the JBreans....

Quad SG

Let me continue, it's an inter-govt conspiary. Not only the water gonna to be cheaper, it will be dearer in years to come and it's a fact, no escape.

the Bear SG

Yup, where there is a conspiracy to have a monopoly or a cartel, the consumer will always be the one financially sodomised.

Eiizumi SG

Frankly speaking. The change in water price starts by Singapore. Singapore does not want Malaysia to be unhappy.

But, look again. There could be a plot by Singapore (for the sake of Singapore of course!) of why Singapore started this Twisted Evil .

In my point of view, changing and getting a new water price for the future now was important. Inflation. Last time Malaysia set the water price in the 60s at few sens was because they are absolutely dumb, they forgot about a thing called inflation. Now they are smarter (nice realisation Rolling Eyes ).

Change in the water price early meant that we could POSSIBLY get cheaper water for the future. But Malaysia fianlly got a bit smarter than they were in the past. They also got quite over-demanding (I think they realised they were stupid in the past and tried to recoup their past losses). When Singapore do not like the price, of course, we will not accept.

By fact, the water discussions (the rights of discussing water) was given by Singapore, or else Malaysia cannot really do anything about the current price. Singapore is a smart businessman. There things got out of hand. Malaysian media started to complain way too much. We say their media sucks. Malaysia shut down talks.

Singapore simply shrugs and says, "I think they finally got abit smarter, finally." Wink