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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Use less water, PM Lee reminds as Johor reservoir dries up

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While the country is already moving to increase water supply and making it more reliable, by building desalination plants for instance, there is still a role for all to play.
"Sustainability also depends on each one of us, how we live our daily lives and how we adjust our habits to be greener," PM Lee said.

Note the point that technology can only do so much when it comes to solving our problem... We need also to change our daily habits to conserve water; otherwise, all the water 'created' by technology will be wasted and we will still face a shortage...
Other than this limitation of technology (i.e. it requires change on the part of man as well), there is also the commonly-cited point that green technology actually gives us a false sense of security, making us use even more water than we would have when there is no technology. It's the same with air-con....in the past, we may be cautious in how much time we turned on the aircon...but with aircon that is energy-saving, we have the misperception that it wont use up so much energy, so we end up using aircon even more often than usual!