Singapore Desal/Water Reuse Summit - more education needed ...

Excerpt from Channel News Asia:

More efforts needed to promote desalinated, recycled water

12 April 2007

SINGAPORE: More efforts are needed to promote the acceptance of desalinated and recycled water.

135 leaders from 17 countries came to this conclusion at the inaugural Singapore Desalination and Water Reuse Leadership Summit held on Thursday.

The summit was organised by PUB and the International Desalination Association. Leaders at the summit agreed that water reuse and desalination offers many economic benefits. But public education is necessary to help the community understand how the technologies can benefit society in terms of safety, water quality and cost reduction.

These and other ideas that were exchanged at the two-day summit will be developed into a White Paper by two professors at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

See - Summit outcome - educate more.