Singapore Achieves Self Reliance in Water, Sees Demand Doubling
- Island had enough water even as drought hurt Malaysian supply
- Singapore forecast to need 800 million gallons a day by 2061
Singapore Achieves Self-Reliance in Water
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Singapore has achieved self-reliance in water and is building more capacity to meet a projected doubling in demand in the next 45 years, a minister said.
The city state, which has a contract to buy from neighboring Malaysia more than half its current daily water requirement of 400 to 420 million imperial gallons, has been able to meet demand even when dry weather reduced the Malaysian supply, Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli said in an interview last week.