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The history of common water supply in Singapore began with the construction of the MacRitchie Reservoir, which was built by the British in 1866. During the drought of 1902 the Water Department cut supply to just 2–3 hours per day.
PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, commonly known as PUB, an acronym for Public Utilities Board, is a statutory board under the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment of the Government of Singapore responsible for ensuring a sustainable and efficient water supply in Singapore.
It also has to ensure a clean and hygienic living environment, as well as managing the complete water cycle – from sourcing, collection, purification, and supply of drinking water; to the treatment of used water and recycling into NEWater; desalination; as well as storm water drainage.
The Port of Singapore, run by the port operators PSA International (formerly the Port of Singapore Authority) and Jurong Port, is the world's busiest in terms of shipping tonnage handled. 1.04 billion gross tons were handled in 2004, crossing the one billion mark for the first time in Singapore's maritime history.
Reservoirs in Singapore (1 C, 14 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Water supply and sanitation in Singapore" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Ministry of Transport was formed on 23 November 2001 out of the then Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Its previous portfolio of information technology and telecommunications were then transferred to the then Ministry of Information, Communications and The Arts, now known as the Ministry of Digital Development and Information.
There is a detailed engineering description of the reservoir and Singapore's water supply needs in the New Zealand Engineering journal in 1958. [41] The service reservoir was planned immediately after World War II to expand the water supply system from 30 million to 100 million gallons per day. Works started in 1949 and was completed in 1956. [41]
The reservoir provides water supply to the eastern regions of Singapore and stores treated water mainly from Bedok Reservoir. It can reportedly hold 22 million gallons/ 100,000 cubic metres of water. [8] Access to this service reservoir is restricted unlike the neighbouring Bedok Reservoir.