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Giant tree collapses on Tanglin CC, no one hurt
The tree was more than 24m tall with a girth of 4.6m. The debris was cleared by 5pm on Monday. PHOTO: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
Students at a pottery lesson in the Tanglin Community Club had just left when a huge tree fell and damaged the roof of its Ceramic Room last Saturday. A pottery teacher and an assistant who were in the room were unhurt. The National Parks Board was alerted to the fallen West Indian locust tree at Malcolm Park beside the community club, at about 8.30pm. The 24m-tall.
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Prolonged rain on April 17 and 18, 2021, saw flash floods occur around Singapore, prompting national water agency PUB to issue flood-risk warnings for more than 20 locations. Picture via Facebook/ Roads.sg
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SINGAPORE, April 20 Flash floods over the weekend showed that even after Singapore has spent S$2 billion (RM6.2 billion) to improve drainage over the last decade, it still needs to invest more to deal with the effects of climate change.
This is why the Singapore government is pumping in another S$1.4 billion in the next five years to enhance the country’s drainage systems, Grace Fu, the minister for sustainability and the environment, said yesterday.
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A flash flood at Ulu Pandan on Apr 17, 2021. (Photo: Tok Wee Peng)
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SINGAPORE: Recent flooding incidents here show the importance of planning for climate change, said Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu on Monday (Apr 19). The recent floodings have shown the effects of climate change in Singapore. We are getting a lot more intense rainfall, one of the highest in the last 40 years, said Ms Fu.
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This shows that it is necessary to plan for climate change and ways to mitigate its effects, she added, noting that tackling the issue requires understanding the twin challenges of both inland flooding and sea level rise.
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Phase 2 of underground highway for used water to be financed through borrowing: MOF
The Deep Tunnel Sewerage System will be one of the nationally significant infrastructures that the Government intends to pay for through borrowing.PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
Second Minister for Finance Indranee Rajah (left) and Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu (centre) during a site visit to the DTSS Phase 2 on April 19, 2021.ST PHOTO: AUDREY TAN
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