Asia’s largest water desalination plant open shop

It is a "yam-seng" of processed seawater that is fit for drinking, not with champagne during the opening of the plant. The new S$200 million sea water desalination facility in Tuas starts pumping out 30 million gallons of fresh clean water daily and contribute 10 percent of Singapore’s water needs daily. Singaporeans use 300 million gallons of water daily, which comes from three traditional sources - the reservoirs (collected rainfall), buying water from Malaysia and NEWater (cleaned sewage) production.  The desalinated water will then be mixed with reservoir water and distributed to homes in western parts of Singapore, including Lim Chu Kang, Jurong, Jurong Island, Bukit Batok, Clementi, West Coast, Commonwealth and Buona Vista. The water desalination plant is one of Singapore’s 'critical infrastructure'.  Desalination is a process that removes dissolved minerals (including but not limited to salt) from seawater.  A number of technologies have been developed for desalination, including reverse osmosis (RO), distillation, electrodialysis, and vacuum freezing.   The Tuas plant uses the reverse osmosis sea water desalination technology.

Updated On: 07.07.30