If we are to believe Dr. Jacobus Groen of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands, a co-author on the study, our days of drinking toilet water may be over. This is what he told Asian Scientist Magazine:
“I visited Singapore in 2003 to explore the possibilities of finding offshore meteoric groundwater (OMG). OMG is most likely present everywhere on the Sunda Shelf – the seas between Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. As for Singapore, indications for OMG have been found on the Sumatra side of the Strait of Malacca,” Groen says.
“I also did a small groundwater survey in the Old Alluvium on the east side of Singapore. In that zone there is a well close to the coast with deep fresh groundwater, which – to my opinion – can only be explained as fossil water formed in glacial times when sea level was low and the entire Strait was exposed. This fossil groundwater is likely to extend into the offshore sediments.”
According to the authors, the stored amount of OMG for Singapore will last for hundreds or even thousands of years. However they do warn of some environmental effects that have to be taken into account, such as the lowering of the seafloor or land around the wells, which necessitate that recovery should take place some distance away from the coast. In plain English, the boffins are saying that, handled wrongly, the island could sink. And given the cock-ups we have seen in 2013, from train breakdowns to massive congestion, the elites could just do us in. Not that they have to worry, they have made contingency plans for a flood of biblical proportions.
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Not to worry, Singapore will be under water well before OMG will do it in.
ReplyDeleteWe have not sunk yet? Despite the heavy dose of incompetent government?
ReplyDelete"... they do warn of some environmental effects that have to be taken into account, such as the lowering of the seafloor ... "
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When you remove underground water, you create an empty space where the water was once located.
Remove too much water, and you get a big empty underground cavern in the space once occupied by the water.
This gives rise to a future sink hole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyIH_3eIi0
Another Foreign Talent selling a stupid idea to our gullible PAP Millionaires.
I think all PAP Millionaires have a sign written on their foreheads.
"Come fuck me. I'm rich with Singaporeans' CPF money that I have no intention of returning. And I'm a stupid sucker for ideas from Foreign Talents."
Unfortunately true. They are worse than SPGs when seduced by these white snake oil peddlars. At most SPGs only give away what is their own.
DeleteSink holes is what happens when incompetent people start playing around with underground caverns. See video of this sink hole in Louisiana, USA.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dNuIIEb-4
Do you guys know that our PAP government is happily digging underground caverns in Singapore?
http://travel.cnn.com/singapore/life/jurong-rock-caverns-billion-dollar-hole-ground-381834
This is the same PAP government that spent $4.3 billion dollars turning the formerly smooth running ECP-AYE expressways into the carpark called MCE.
Love that photo of MBS which would evoke a 21st Century Noah's Ark !
ReplyDeleteWith all the high-CEP scholars as leaders (and an occasional mutant cow and a few zeroes at the party table), we would not lack foresight, creativity and imagination for contingency planning. They are however, guided by just one single heuristic: if plan A fail, repeat again until it succeed. Happy New Year, huat arrrgh!!
ReplyDeleteNot waving, drowning.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Tattler!
ReplyDeleteHappy 2014, Tattler! Thanks for all your wonderful writings and humor. May you have a good year ahead.
ReplyDeleteIf the red dot sink, it will be a golden opportunity for land reclamation, which the papigs can sell to Li Kashing for Billions again.
ReplyDeleteCan Sampan 2.0 handle 135 million passengers that will be fleeting through our island by 2025?
ReplyDeleteSTB will soon rename its tagline to Your Jewel.
Welcome to 2014, a year of wild horse. Keep calm and saddle on!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/business/international/singapore-leads-surge-in-airport-construction-across-asia-pacific.html?pagewanted=2&src=recg
DeleteWah! Really ah!
DeleteSo people in USA who want to fly to Australia.
They will specially stop over in Singapore just to shop at the Jewel lah?
And Thai people flying to Vietnam.
They will first want to stopover in Singapore to shop in the Jewel lah!
They have gone crazy with vowing to be the best Jewel. There has got to be a optimum limit beyond which the excess just become an extravagant waste of resources.
DeleteIn China they have built the biggest mall which ended up becoming a white elephant. Malaysia followed suit but on a smaller scale. So Singapore wants to prove they are different except that it's not their own money to begon with?
Ooof! No recession as GDP released today miraculously avoided 2 consecutive quarters of negative quarter on quarter contraction!! And how did they do it this time? Data massaging detected again of course. Based on Nov 2013 release, 3Q GDP was -1%, and based on today's release, 4Q GDP was -2.2%. Since they had 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, it must be recession right? No!
ReplyDeleteBased on today's data, the data massagers revised upwards 3Q 2013 GDP from -1% to +2.2%, voila! Recession avoided.
heh heh, you can never beat the house in a casino. GDP bonus well justified, off to the holidays!
Going to Dock your Pay.
DeleteWith all the Ivy-League scholars we have in the Administration, I'm sure they can dream up a way to tow an iceberg here from the Antarctic if we run short of fresh water, expense not being an issue. Or they can seed the clouds with the new F35s.
ReplyDeleteThe next big one is the North-South Expressway, estimated to cost 7-8 billions, not factoring in any over-runs, to start construction in 2015. This is more than the annual budget of over half the countries in the world, eg Iceland, Brunei etc. Hoping things don't go south (pardon the pun) like the MCE or the Downtime Line.
The PAP can easily recover the costs and make humongous profits by collecting road toll. LTA should be listed on the stock exchange and our minimum CPF sum fully invested in it to give better returns.
DeleteCome to think of it, the creme de la creme will rush to their banks, and feel very rich when they look at their CPF, err...., Bank statements. Our big spending PM will be the death of the lesser mortals.
DeleteIn the 50 Years Of Television Programme, the Village Settlements at Toa Payoh and everywhere in Singapore were described as slums and unsightly. Just short of using eyesores.
ReplyDeleteSo, no effort was spared to have the Villages removed.
Allow me to digress.
Singaporeans who know the DANGER OF RULE BY THE GUN SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR ANY EX- MILITARY MAN INTO THE PARLIAMENT.
THIS SHOULD BE MADE TO FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BENIGN MILITARY REGIME IN HISTORY.
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