On Tuesday, Jul 27 2010, my colleague Paul Ramani and I went down to Marina Barrage with three students to receive a certificate of appreciation for Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s participation in the Singapore International Water Week 2010. It was a culmination of months of hard work, planning, teeth-gnashing, nagging, marshalling and worrying. Our News Writing [...]
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July 17, 2010
I want to start using the thimble I got from PUB!
I was one of the privileged few who managed to attend the Asian Water Symposium 2010 held at Dunman High School in June, in conjunction with the Singapore International Water Week. I was expecting it to be a boring afternoon but boy, was I terribly wrong. Instead, my afternoon turned out to be an enriching [...]
July 11, 2010
It’s All About The Energy
As I paced around the Water Expo, looking at all the new technologies and listening in to the conversations of members of the industry, one big question popped into my head: what does the water industry need now? After flipping through the countless interviews and notes that I gathered, I saw one word being repeated [...]
July 8, 2010
The little red dot is now blue
Being at the SIWW Closing Ceremony brought out the “little patriotic girl” side of me that I never knew existed. I was beaming with pride when everyone I met and conversed with at the ceremony told me that they were extremely impressed with Singapore’s efforts in water conservation and management. From a country that had [...]
July 7, 2010
Passing on New Lessons
It has been an exhilarating week for me personally. In the past few years, from the days of water issues with our neighbour, to a more global problem with the environment, I have read, visited, accepted, criticised…issues brought up by various parties. But this week, I have been taken to another side of the matter. [...]
July 5, 2010
The Finance Gap in Asia
At a session I attended during SIWW last week it was estimated that US$400bn is required to be invested in water and sanitation infrastructure in developing Asian economies over the next decade. That’s US$40bn/year for the next decade. Finance for this infrastructure will need to come from both public and private sector sources. A conservative [...]
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