S'pore to build 5th desalination plant on Jurong Island

Singapore

SINGAPORE will build its fifth desalination plant on Jurong Island under the island's drive to reduce its dependence on the weather for its supply of water, even as climate change brings about changes in weather patterns.

National water agency PUB recently awarded a consultancy-services tender to study the development of the plant, said Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli at the Singapore International Water Week on Tuesday; in April, he had announced in Parliament that the PUB was looking into the feasibility of such an idea.