Category Archives: Water

Singapore-Malaysia Leaders’ Annual Retreat on 29th Oct 2023, a three-year lapse due to the Covid-19 pandemic; The two PMs 4th May 2021 meeting in Singapore has been postponed due to the pandemic; I met former PM Najib at the basement foodcourt of the Pavilion, Jalan Bintang, Kuala Lumpur on 30th July 2018;

Posted on April 7, 2019 by tankoktim

=================== . 10 outcomes from the 10th Singapore-Malaysia Leaders’ Retreat Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim meeting PM Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana for the leaders’ retreat. Both countries reached agreements in several fields at the two-day event. ST PHOTO: KUA … Continue reading →

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3 sen or RM2.73 million per year; The 4th Supplementary Water Agreement signed in 1990; Will there be a 5th SWA by the 9th PM of Malaysia, and when? Is there precedence in the 4th? Brinkmanship, is the bilateral relationship worth between Malaysia and Singapore worth only S$91m [or RM273 million]? How to ensure no ambiguity in the 5th SWA, if there is one?

Posted on March 3, 2019 by tankoktim

========Good, at last the 10th PM of Malaysia. PM Anwar is in red dot to engage in 4-eye discussions on bilateral and state matters. What is the agenda, what is on the table to have win-win solutions? Will it all … Continue reading →

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6th PM Najib Razak and 1MDB, the corruption scandal; RM114 Million Worth Of Seized Assets Returned To Najib and UMNO; In August 2021, the 8th PM Muhyiddin was replaced by Ismail Sabri of UMNO, which is back as government of Malaysia, as 9th PM; As the 7th PM, Dr Mahathir [May 2018 – March 2020] after winning the 2018 14th GE by toppling UMNO took action against 1MDB, reduced GST to zero % from 6%; the East Coast Rail Link, pipeline projects; and KL-Singapore HSR; the 3sen 1962 Water Agreement; Dr M was replaced by PM Muhyiddin in March 2020 [18 months as 8th PM to August 2021]; Malaysia passed anti-party hopping Bill on 28July2022; No more horse-trading politics;

Posted on July 18, 2018 by tankoktim

============= . Great political news for Malaysia…    A total of 209 MPs voted in favour of the anti-party hopping Bill, while 11 were not in attendance in Parliament. No MPs voted against it. ====== Singapore changed the Constitution back … Continue reading →

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22 recommendations for the UN – submitted to the Global Challenges Foundation in Sept 2017; United Nations should set up a UN Environment Council to transform and reform the 21st century and beyond; No environment, there will be no nature, more diseases, and no life on earth; Environment is the main – to reverse it first, and make all the other UN missions become secondary; US$10b UN Green Climate Fund – what is the purpose?

Posted on May 4, 2018 by tankoktim

============== . “22 Recommendations that will transform the UN and the World” Is the UN neutral in NYC?  America did block many heads of states from visiting the UN in NYC.  Is the UN practising democracy by having the veto … Continue reading →

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Mega Cities on flat land — no hydro or wind power, and inadequate land space for huge solar power farms [and those in temperate countries having four seasons, no solar power all year round]; What are the possible solutions for all mega cities [the big carbon polluters] becoming 100% users of renewable clean and green electricity ending use of fossil oil, coal and LNG?

Posted on February 23, 2018 by tankoktim

================== . Many solutions to generate renewable clean and green electricity. ========== ==== . Build a 10-storey structure [steel or concrete] and have a test run to pump water to the top, and have it retained on each floor and … Continue reading →

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EVs & Singapore Green Plan by 2030; Importing LNG – We paid S$8b more in 2022 due to the war; Net-zero emission by 2050; Burning 1% coal and 99% LNG till 2050; S$100b to build seawalls to keep rising sea levels out; Polder project at Pulau Tekong; Funding climate change by long-term loans; Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Singapore; costs of electric charging points; No environment, no nature, more diseases, no life; To protect and love nature at all cost? Protect all life;

Posted on June 10, 2017 by tankoktim

=========== . Solar panels… it is a drop in the ocean. Mega cities are the major carbon emission polluters, and on flat ground, it will not have land for hydro and wind power, or large land space for solar powers … Continue reading →

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Spiritual blessings at Bedok Reservoir and a MRT train [photos below]; Cause and effect of road accidents and untimely deaths; 5 died tragically at No. 37 Tanjong Pagar Road on 13th Feb 2021; There is no accident or coincidence on earth; Prayers for Durban roads in South Africa in 2005 [newspaper report below]; Road safety, should LTA conduct trials of lighted markings on road surface? Deaths by drowning at the Bedok Reservoir; Purification prayers by inter-religious group leaders at the Reservoir in 2011 and a MRT train in 2023; suicides at the Marina Bay areas, Singapore River, and Kallang River;

Posted on May 12, 2017 by tankoktim

 .============ . Body of 21-year-old man found floating on Bedok Reservoir Several personal items such as a backpack, bicycle and alcohol bottles were found at the scene. PHOTO: Shin Min Daily News.   PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 22, 2023 11:50 AM By LIM … Continue reading →

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SG100 – What should Singapore focus on? Water and Electricity are threats to Red Dot’s economic wellbeing; When will we have surplus electricity and desalinated water? Should we compare Singapore with Germany or Scandinavian countries?

Posted on April 19, 2017 by tankoktim

================ . Now we have awakened that water is not the only threat but energy too. Solar power in red dot will not be enough to replace LNG to generate electricity that we need. Never. We have to seek solar, … Continue reading →

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2017 Budget – the details – and 30% water price increase

Posted on March 7, 2017 by tankoktim

Water tariff rate increase… Used Water, Waterborne Fee wef 1st July 2018: The 0.92 cents per cubic metre on users below 40 cubic metres should be reduced to 0.80, and the 12 cents should be added on to the rate … Continue reading →

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Solar cannot replace LNG 100% in Singapore; Singapore uses 1% coal and 99% LNG, and will not stop until 2050; What other clean sources? Singapore should support push for greener energy at UN; import green and clean energy from neighbouring countries; lease uninhabited islands for JV solar and wind farms;

Posted on June 22, 2016 by tankoktim

======= . All about money.We are not prepared to easily give up our oil refining sector. ======= Have JV solar and wind power farms on uninhabited islands in Asean. How mega cities on flat ground, no wind or hydro power, … Continue reading →

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Water Desalination..How cheap can it be? 4th desalination plant; supplying treated water – first-year price of $1.07867 per cubic m to the PUB; Low-cost solar-powered desalination;

Posted on January 16, 2016 by tankoktim

=========== . Drinkable water extracted with solar-powered desalination system By E&T editorial staff Published Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in eandt.thelet.org A low-cost, highly efficient desalination system that uses solar energy to remove salt from seawater has been developed by a … Continue reading →

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Marina Barrage, Heavy downpour, ponding and flash flooding; Cross-island underground tunnels to divert massive flood waters; What else is missing?

Posted on December 12, 2015 by tankoktim

======== Flood and funding…solutions? The cost is high, it is costly when flood waters create havoc and destruction. Dig tunnels downward to let the flood water flow into the huge underground sewage tunnels. Install fans at tight corners in the … Continue reading →

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No Russian LNG supplies to warm up Europe’s bitter cold this winter 2022? Many will die in the cold; UN should lead the fight against global warming; Global ceasefire will not end disease; End environmental degradation first, guns can cease firing later, not before;

Posted on December 4, 2015 by tankoktim

======================== . Will Europe install the Turkish-designed roadside wind turbines alongside the streets, train tracks, and highways [even on high rise roof tops] to generate electricity to power the heaters to save many homeless from dying in the winter cold … Continue reading →

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Climate change alert; UN should lead research on clean energy, and potable water source; Save our oceans and our future; Use the UN US$10b Green Climate Fund in research projects for the sake of all mankind;

Posted on December 3, 2015 by tankoktim

===== . Is the UN lame on this? What is missing to end the use of fossil oil now, not in 2030, 2050 or 2070? When mega cities on flat ground become 100% users of clean and green electricity now, … Continue reading →

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Gratitude. First Command: Be absolutely grateful for everything; Gratitude for materials. Is it the end of Materialism? Even end of Capitalism? Commodity super cycle? Have gratitude for everything, day and night;….even oxygen, our lives, time and space we occupy; We own nothing; All materials are given for humans to live healthily, comfortably, safely and happily…be grateful for everything; No environment, no nature, there will be no life, but more diseases; When will new diseases strike humankind, and how? Grateful: Why dogs wag their tails? Humans do not have to;

Posted on November 1, 2015 by tankoktim

======== . Gratitude…   Let us do not raise our voice against loved ones…spouse, children…   It harms feelings and cause unhappiness, not happiness.   It is against having love, harmony and unity… . ========= . I am grateful able … Continue reading →

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Respect water – it sustains but can also destroy life; the source of water; Water coolers and dispensers;

Posted on October 24, 2015 by tankoktim

================== . Water, Water, Water Water is by nature accepting. It will conform and fill up a receptacle, or be held in a pond acceptingly. It will flow from high ground to low without questioning or resisting. It will turn … Continue reading →

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Wireless technology? Solar and Wind power; Needs huge and cheap electricity storage capacity; UN should lead the research into new energy sources; Solar and wind power are kid’s stuff; Who will research into tapping lightning power, and creating artificial lightning; and transmitting electricity from outer space to earth? And, creating artificial power of the sun?

Posted on October 13, 2015 by tankoktim

. ===== . Wireless technology? Can clean and green electricity be transmitted from outer space to power mega cities using wireless technology? When China has more than 10 mega cities beom 100% users of clean and green energy now, and … Continue reading →

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Solar vs Wind Power; Turkish-design turbine on expressway, MRT tracks, horizontal models on high-rise roof tops, alongside runways; Tap sea currents and wave power;

Posted on July 19, 2015 by tankoktim

Solar vs wind power in Singapore I wrote this and more at this link: https://tankoktim.wordpress.com/…/wind-power-and-magnetic-…/ Quote: “I hope our government will encourage the research into wind power and the use of ‘magnetic levitation motors’ to generate electricity in Singapore in … Continue reading →

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Asia in the 21st century; Will there be peace? How? What are the historical tensions carried over from the past? In Asia, East Asia and South East Asia…..How will the tensions diminish? Peace – roles of Asean? Asia and EU…; EU after Brexit; Aukus [Aust, UK, US security alliance] is to encircle and contain China;

Posted on July 18, 2015 by tankoktim

================ . For a peaceful Asean based on unity, compassion, love and harmony. Possible? When will China invite all the navies of Asean to have tea together at their military bases in the South China Sea? ============= . For a … Continue reading →

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2061 – Is it possible? Independence in Fire and Water or rather Energy and Water

Posted on July 10, 2015 by tankoktim

Abundance clean, green and cheap energy to replace the importing of fossil oil and gas to generate our electricity is needed if we want to desalinate in a big scale. Will solar power be enough? What else can we tap … Continue reading →

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