All those who have served NS since the beginning - or at least from 1969 onwards - would have tasted NEWater from the Water Treatment Plant operated by the Combat Engineers.
Those equipment were operated in all kinds of water conditions in the various polluted rivers, ponds, and lakes - in Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, and Taiwan.
Some of these water sources are near to pig farms, fish ponds, and vegetable-agricultural land, with drains leading to these water sources which the Combat Engineers operate the Water Treatment Plants.
Even without the Water Treatment Plant operated by the Combat Engineers, most of us would have remembered using the water bottle to collect murky water from running rivers and streams, and dropping chlorine water into the water bottles.
No big deal with NEWater, when the military version is already considered safe enough for consumption.
The current spat with Malaysia, certainly help our Government to launch NEWater in a well managed "Marketing Blitz" that made the product quickly acceptable.
foga
today's straits time published an article on the funny side of singapore's minister.
environment minister Lim Swee Say,said someone changed his name on one of the sites promoting Newater to lim shee shee!!!
wat a joker.
but on a more serious note, i guess Newater is a warning sign. a sign that we should never let anyone or in this context any country take advantage of us, never let them push us around.
definately we could bend our heads and beg them for water,i mean they want more money, we can afford. but there goes our pride. there's no price to it. let them poke fun at us for drinking treated sewage, let them joke. let them tell on the tourists to their country that they will be drinking treated sewage from our taps. time will tell that we have made a bold yet determined move that would secure our water resources for decades and decades to come.
wat price national pride? cheers to Newater!
hmmmm.......jus wondering, m'sia always seems to like batter trade stuff like using palm oil to pay for military purchases, wonder if they would want to batter trade with us, we've got Tiger beer.
the Bear
Tiger Beer haram lah... but then, it did not stop a Arab man with a wife covered up in a burqua I saw in KL a year ago quaffing a Heineken.
Originally posted by foga:
hmmmm.......jus wondering, m'sia always seems to like batter trade stuff like using palm oil to pay for military purchases, wonder if they would want to batter trade with us, we've got Tiger beer.