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Singapore opens fifth NEWater plant

Xinhua, January 18, 2017 Adjust font size:

Singapore on Wednesday officially opened the fifth plant that produces NEWater, a kind of home-grown reclaimed water.

The new plant in Changi with total cost of about 170 million Singapore dollars (119.65 million U.S. dollars) is among one of the biggest NEWater plants in Singapore and has a capacity of producing 228,000 cubic meters or 50 million gallons of water per day.

Speaking at the launch, Minister for Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli said that the water levels of Johor's Linggiu Reservoir in Malaysia, which enables Singapore to draw water for import, have fallen from 80 percent in early 2015 to 20 percent in October last year, before making a "slow recovery" to the current 26 percent.

The minister said that water supply for Singapore and Malaysia's Johor state could be affected if the level of the Linggiu Reservoir continues to fall.

He added that the latest NEWater plant is one of the major investments in water infrastructure to strengthen Singapore's resilience against weather uncertainties.

In partnership with PUB, Singapore's national water agency, the fifth NEWater plant is the first built by a foreign-local consortium, comprising BEWG International, a subsidiary of Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited listed in China's Hong Kong, and UES Holdings, a Singapore-listed firm.

The NEWater is highly purified recycled water produced using membrane technology. It is potable and suitable for industries that require highly purified water.

Together with the other four NEWater plants, NEWater can now meet 40 percent of Singapore's water demand. The PUB expects NEWater to meet 55 percent of Singapore's water demand by 2060, when the water demand is expected to increase significantly. Endit