Rachel Ash said:
Mr Tan.
There was no reports on "ponding" before during Sir Stamford Raffles time. It all has to do with modernization. Rainwater needs to run off into somewhere and often this mean into drains, then river and finally the sea. Also rainwater seeps into the ground and finds the water table. Unfortunately, we have built ourselves a concrete jungle where rainwater mainly run off into man-made drains/canals which becomes increasingly insufficient.
I believe this issue has more impart than the Barrage. The more important question, I keep asking myself, year after year, decades after decades, there is always some widening/ deepening works on our drains/canals like our Bukit Timah canal but we are experiencing more episodes of ponding.
The most irritating thing I find that despite many ponding areas occurring in Singapore, our authorities NEVER issue us residents with fishing rods.
On a more serious note: is this a case of poor planning, penny wise pound foolish (like our MTR maintenance neglect). poor coordination among our agencies, stubborn and cocky (fail to listen to industry expert and rely on the wrong people for advice (ministers), part of their plan to have constant infra-structure projects to boost GDP numbers to earn fat bonuses or ............
REPLY
Each fishing rod cost $5. Can you buy it from the SG bonus of $100 to $300 that Heng SK is giving to you?
Mr Tan.
There was no reports on "ponding" before during Sir Stamford Raffles time. It all has to do with modernization. Rainwater needs to run off into somewhere and often this mean into drains, then river and finally the sea. Also rainwater seeps into the ground and finds the water table. Unfortunately, we have built ourselves a concrete jungle where rainwater mainly run off into man-made drains/canals which becomes increasingly insufficient.
I believe this issue has more impart than the Barrage. The more important question, I keep asking myself, year after year, decades after decades, there is always some widening/ deepening works on our drains/canals like our Bukit Timah canal but we are experiencing more episodes of ponding.
The most irritating thing I find that despite many ponding areas occurring in Singapore, our authorities NEVER issue us residents with fishing rods.
On a more serious note: is this a case of poor planning, penny wise pound foolish (like our MTR maintenance neglect). poor coordination among our agencies, stubborn and cocky (fail to listen to industry expert and rely on the wrong people for advice (ministers), part of their plan to have constant infra-structure projects to boost GDP numbers to earn fat bonuses or ............
REPLY
Each fishing rod cost $5. Can you buy it from the SG bonus of $100 to $300 that Heng SK is giving to you?
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