Flash floods expected only in localised areas with Singapore’s well-designed drainage system (Page 4)

27 February 2015

Lianhe Zaobao

This was a report on the two-day NUS workshop titled “Future Floods: An Exploration of a Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Flood Risk Forecasting”, a collaboration between the Environmental Cluster at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Institute of Water Policy and AON Asia. Experts at the workshop shared that with global warming, future rainfall in Singapore is expected to be more frequent and higher in intensity. Professor Robert James Wasson, Senior Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS, and Assistant Professor Winston Chow, from the NUS Department of Geography, both noted that Singapore’s drainage system today is well-designed and has the ability to withstand high rainfall load. With the exception of flash floods or ponding incidents, the massive flooding episodes of the past are not likely to recur in Singapore.

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