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Often old toilets still have high-level cisterns in the service ducts. On the outside, the toilet is flushed by a handle (just like an ordinary low-level cistern toilet) although behind the wall this handle activates a chain. Sometimes a long flushing trough is used to allow closets to be flushed repeatedly without waiting for the cistern to ...
The water resources of Singapore are especially precious given the small amount of densely settled land. Singapore receives an average of 2,400 mm of rainfall annually, well above the global average of 1,050 mm. The constraint is the limited land area to catch and store the rainfall, and the absence of natural aquifers and lakes. [11]
The modern toilet utilises a cistern to reserve and hold the correct amount of water required to flush the toilet bowl. In earlier toilets, the cistern was located high above the toilet bowl and connected to it by a long pipe. It was necessary to pull a hanging chain connected to a release valve located inside the cistern in order to flush the ...
Three reservoirs in Singapore are named after notable Municipal Engineers James MacRitchie, Robert Peirce and David J. Murnane. The idea of a Public Utilities Board was first introduced in 1961 when industrialisation was driving up the country's demand for power. [5] However, it was only in 1 May 1963 that the statutory board came into force. [6]
A dual flush toilet; note the two buttons at the top of the cistern. A dual flush toilet is a variation of the flush toilet that uses two buttons or a handle mechanism to flush different amounts of water. The purpose of this mechanism is to reduce the volume of water used to flush different types of waste.
More flooding in low-lying areas. About 30 per cent of Singapore lies less than 5m above the mean sea level and these areas will be susceptible to flooding as the sea level rises, along with tides ...
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The company started initially as Hydrochem (S) Pte Ltd in 1989 [3] with a start-up capital of S$20,000 and three staff, selling water treatment systems. [4] [5]By January 2001, Hyflux had become the first water treatment company to be listed on SESDAQ, and was upgraded to the Singapore Exchange's Mainboard in April 2003.