{"id":8074,"date":"2025-11-01T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8074"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:59:54","slug":"operations-at-pub-johor-river-waterworks-suspended-after-water-pollution-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8074","title":{"rendered":"Operations at PUB Johor River Waterworks suspended after water pollution incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Operations at PUB&#8217;s Johor River Waterworks have been temporarily suspended after a water pollution incident affecting Johor River.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>Water supply in Singapore remains unaffected as PUB has stepped up production at local plants to meet demand,&#8221; said Singapore&#8217;s national water agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;PUB is monitoring the raw water quality in the Johor River closely. Operations will resume when water quality checks show that the Johor River quality is back to normal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Under the 1962 Water Agreement, Singapore can draw up to 250 million gallons of water a day from the Johor River, and Singapore is obliged to provide Johor with treated water up to 2 per cent of the water imported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Linggiu Reservoir is located upstream of the Johor River Waterworks and releases water into the Johor River to supplement its flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Water demand in Singapore is currently about 440 million gallons a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/pub-johor-river-waterworks-suspended-water-pollution-incident-5439181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Operations at PUB&#8217;s Johor River Waterworks have been temporarily suspended after a water pollution incident affecting Johor River. &#8220;Water supply in Singapore remains unaffected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--sYMntwQl--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/water-singapore-malaysia-02-data_0.jpg?itok=c86MeXgN","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2005,5289,7460,5274,7718,4317,2509,203,7719],"class_list":["post-8074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-incident","tag-johor","tag-operations","tag-pollution","tag-pub","tag-river","tag-suspended","tag-water","tag-waterworks","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}