More than 36 hours of non stop rain to start the new year 2021. In a way this is blessing in disguise, to stop people from merry making and congregating in large numbers when the Covid19 virus is in the air. Staying at home is the safest place, warm and cosy, when temperature in certain parts of the island fell to 21.1C. And we have the infamous ponding in many parts of the island.
Despite the advancement in town and estate planning, with new knowledge and technology, these predictable occurrence of rainfall is still a pain in the ass in this so called smart island, infested with super talents, home grown and the best from the third world countries. All the monies spent to buy all the talents, many being paid in the millions, could not put the island together again in terms of ponding.
Why is there hardly any improvements in the way rain water is being managed, distributed and discharged into the canals, reservoirs and the sea? Cannot be planned, too difficult to plan, or 'misplanned'?
The island is so small, finite, the drains and canals and their capacity, and the capacity of rainfall, are all calculable numbers, not rocket science. Why is it so difficult to manage the rainfall and water flow?
What kinds of talents are we using to plan our drainage and flood control or ponding? Local talents or funny third world talents? Do these foreign funny talents really have flood management experience or came with funny degrees and funny resumes but no real knowledge or experience in flood management?
Our local talents have done a superb job in building enough reservoirs for our need. This project of building more reservoirs were executed before the flood of 'foreign talents', so I am presuming that the main idea was local in origin. What about the ideas in flood management, with clever 'foreign talents' rope rising in the air tricks or native talents that could not tame the ponding in this small piece of rock? The scale of the problem is in no way near the scale of the Ganges or Huang He or Chang Jiang.
So, will Singapore find the real talents to solve this ponding problem once and for all? Cannot, no way?
Depends on who is in charge?
Agree, just accept it, like accepting the flood of fake FTs taking over our lunch.
ReplyDeleteNew normal, new normal.
Singapore used to have natural soil 40 years. Today everything piece of soil is wayang soil.... dumping is everywhere, probably 5 meters of trash, 1 meter of construction waste, 50 cm of some red soil or mud,... then wayang with 10 to 30 cm of shui shui top soil and plant with grasses or trees.... when it rains and coupled with super high tide... you will have flooding.... no more natural soil and vegetation to absorb the water.... So prepare to live in water world soon
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