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Water is at the heart of who we are, and everything we do. We live through water. "I think there's probably some
intrinsic, maybe almost primeval, ____________________that human beings have with water.”
Quenching our collective _________________is one of the great human and technical __________________of
this century.
Water analysts predict that worldwide by 2030 we could ___________________a
40 percent ____________________between supply and demand.
"I think the most important question is — what is the ___________________that people can play in urban water
management? Many cities are still treating rivers as their ____________________ and it is very challenging
environmentally.”
Singapore, modern, ambitious and complex, a city-state that has always known that managing water is a case
of
____________________
"Even before we were independent, during the days of the British, we already had to import water from Malaysia
and so from day one of our independence, I think trying to be sure that we could be ____________________in water
has a l w a y s b e e n a s t r a t e g y , a ____________________. ”
One of those strategies is large ____________________recycling. Used water is treated and cleaned to make
what's known as NEWater. It supplies a third of Singapore's needs.
The visitor centre next to the water treatment plant is a ____________________tool to explain why every
Drop ____________________
"The most direct way that you can think of is you have to really put it into the education system, that people are
learning that water is not something that can easily be obtained, it's not as easy as turning on the tap, and then you go
from there.77

Making water management a public process is one way to increase awareness.

Marina Barrage is an expression of how Singapore's water policy __________________through everyday life. It is an
engineering project turned public park.
"Initially the idea was to create a ____________________which is really a flood barrier to prevent the
high _____________from _______________the lower parts of the city, but with the advent of membrane
technology and our ability to be able to clean the water for drinking, the barrage also began
to ________________up as a _________________ so that we could keep the water as a source of water supply.
Then once you've done that, you in fact create a nice recreational lake in the heart of the city.”
It is one thing to recycle and conserve water and another to find fresh ____________________and yet one
source is lapping at our shores.
"We are an island, we are surrounded by the sea, and I think there are many ____________________cities in the
world that would need to ____________________on the sea for their source of water.”
Ten percent of Singapore's daily supply of water comes from the sea. The flow begins here at Asia's
largest____________________ plant. Local firms have become specialists in turning salt water to drinking
water and
that's become good business.
"Ten years ago we used to see only five or six ____________________plants per year, and right now we are seeing
10 to 20 times that amount per year in terms of proposals, ranging from the traditional Middle East-North Africa
region, to the USA, to Latin America, to India, to South East Asia, as well as, of course, China.”
Worldwide, cities are growing, and with that the need to secure water supplies. And water __________________too
little, or too much — touches nearly every aspect of urban life.
"Singapore is a very ____________________city and we will probably continue to grow economically, in
population. There will always be new challenges and new problems to solve, and I think urbanisation
and ____________________change are two of the biggest ones that ____________________us.”
We live life through water and managing it well is the work of a lifetime.