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The Singapore Water Story told to SAS members on June 4, 2014, during The Singapore International Water Week Dr. Cecilia Tortajada, President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, presented with passion and enthusiasm the raise of Singapore out of a very polluted area to the present status of a sustainable place, which integrates green corridors and blue roads, for making the small asian island a piece of land where one likes to live. Venue : UBS, One Raffles Quay Her book, The Singapore Water Story, launched one year ago in the presence of former Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, may completely change one’s vision about Singapore. It helps understand how this small CityState could, within less than 50 years, pass from a Third World country to a First World one 1 . Accustomed, still in the sixties, to experience droughts 1 LEE KUAN YEW, From the Third World to the First, The Singapore Story: 19652000, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2000.
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The Singapore Water Story
told to SAS members
on June 4, 2014, during The Singapore International Water Week
Dr. Cecilia Tortajada, President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, presented with passion and enthusiasm the raise of Singapore out of a very polluted area to the present status of a sustainable place, which integrates green corridors and blue roads, for making the small asian island a piece of land where one likes to live.
Venue : UBS, One Raffles Quay
Her book, The Singapore Water Story, launched one year ago in the presence of former Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, may completely change one’s vision about Singapore. It helps understand how this small City-‐State could, within less than 50 years, pass from a Third World country to a First World one1. Accustomed, still in the sixties, to experience droughts
1 LEE KUAN YEW, From the Third World to the First, The Singapore Story: 1965-‐2000, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2000.
as well as devastating floods, Singaporians today have zero tolerance for these natural disasters.
I warmly thank the Swiss Association Singapore’s Committee for having made this event possible and would like to especially mention three persons, Muriel Henchoz
in her capacity of SAS’s vice-‐president, former president Manuela Panos-‐Gissler, as well as actuel president Claire Lecomte.
Evelyne Fiechter
Founder of W4W (Workshop for Water Ethics)
