Singapore's waterways to receive makeover

Singapore's drains, canals and reservoirs will undergo transformations into more user-friendly streams, rivers and lakes by 2009, according to national water agency PUB. The Active, Beautiful, Clean (ABC) Waters programme is intended to bring people closer to water through improved waterfronts and recreation areas as well as foster education about this precious resource.

Singapore already has a pervasive network of 14 reservoirs, 32 major rivers and more than 7000 km of canals and drains. Since the launch of the ABC Waters programme last April, three projects at Bedok Reservoir, MacRitchie Reservoir and a stretch of Kallang River at Kolam Ayer have been underway. The aim also is to increase Singapore's water catchment areas from covering half of the island to two thirds, within five years.

The PUB revealed further plans for the ABC Waters signature projects including two new reservoirs to be created in the northeast of Singapore; the rejuvenation of Kallang River; and Optimising Alexandra Canal and its water. The two new reservoirs will be created when Sungei Punggol and Sungei Serangoon are dammed, to create Singapore's 16th and 17th reservoirs by 2009.

The Punggol Reservoir will include a floating wetland the size of half a football field, where the public will be able to access via a suspended bridge on one side and a floating boardwalk on the other. Along the edge of Serangoon Reservoir, the Lorong Halus Wetland will become Singapore's first constructed wetland, having been transformed from a former landfill.

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