For my final day of reporting for the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), we move from the chilling cold of Suntec, to the blazing heat of the mid-day sun as I wandered aimlessly for a while around Jurong, trying to find my destination: Fuhua Primary School, which was hosting the Primary School water festival, with …
Photo contributed by Tng Wee Hong, Photographer for Youth@SIWW 50 lower secondary school students attended the Learning trail at Macritchie in conjunction of the http://www.siww.com.sg/water-showcases. One of the tasks that the students had to do was to piece together puzzle depicting the process of how potable water is obtained. Local catchment water is one of …
It is always enlightening to learn about the plight of other countries in order to appreciate how fortunate we are to be in Singapore, being provided with seemingly almost everything we need. I attended the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Business Forum on 7 July 2011, and it educated me on the situations that …
A career talk titled ‘Explore careers in Desalination’ was held on 8 July 2011, for engineering students of Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Representatives from International Desalination Association’s Young Leaders Program (IDA-YLP) also gave an introduction on the career opportunities present in the desalination industry. Besides that, the talk highlighted the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) …
Dunman High School hosted this year’s Asian Water Symposium on 6 July 2011, with an audience of 350 students, ranging from the age of 13 to 19. The keynote speaker of the day was Mr Anders Berntell, executive director of Stockholm International Water Institute. Mr Eugene Heng from Waterways Watch Society gave an insightful talk …
After a fruitful day of discussion, with many key insights shared amongst the delegates, dignitaries and world leaders, the Water Leaders Summit finally came to a close at the Suntec Singapore Ballroom 2. Professor Tommy Koh, the Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs kicked off a series of three closing ceremony speeches by applauding …
When I heard that I was posted to cover the Australian, European and Indian Business Forums at the Suntec City Convention Hall, I felt a wave of apprehension. Business forums? In my mind, I saw images of alien mathematical formulas, unfamiliar technical jargon and endless discussions. Well, I was right on at least two counts- …
I was first introduced to the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) by my erstwhile lecturer, Ms Koh Joh Ting, who’s now with PUB. I was invited to do it last year but had to turn it down because I was in the army, so when the opportunity came up this year, I grabbed it. With …
I live in the north, and going all the way to Anchorvale to experience the Sengkang Floating Wetland was like entering to a whole new world. The wetland, located in Punggol Reservoir, is part of the Active, Beautiful, Clean (ABC) Waters programme by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency. It is also the country’s largest man-made …
PUB, Singapore’s national water agency launches a bi-annual publication of R&D projects in Innovation in Water | Singapore at the Singapore International Water Week. Not that I’m enamoured by everything on print and will devour even this corporate material. But even though nothing seemed to make sense to me from all the jargons and chemical …
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