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With the news release “Tuas Nexus – Singapore’s First Integrated Water and Solid Waste Treatment Facility Begins Construction”, the National Environment Agency (NEA) (2020) revealed the Public Utility Board (PUB)’s aim to completely recycle Singapore’s used water, considering that the water consumption would possibly double from 430 million gallons a day by 2060. A major contribution to this aim would be the completion of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) and Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP), with a treating capacity of 800,000m³ a day using “two energy-efficient membrane bioreactor systems”, in 2025. Used water would be channeled underground via two different tunnels from households and industries and transported to the WRP by the 80-metre-deep influent pumping stations. Furthermore, 83 hectares of land would be available after the gradual termination of the two previous water treatment plants and 37 intermediate pumping stations. 

Although the NEA thoroughly addressed the benefits of the DTSS and WRP, it failed to mention how every drop of water can be recycled. 

National Environment Agency. (2020, September 8). Tuas Nexus – Singapore’s First Integrated Water and Solid Waste Treatment Facility Begins Construction.

https://www.nea.gov.sg/media/news/news/index/tuas-nexus-singapore-s-first-integrated-water-and-solid-waste-treatment-facility-begins-construction

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