Water supply
Who'll Win the Water Race?
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
There's real competition over projects to supply water to Singapore from Indonesia. Those in the race include the president's family, relatives of ministers and even the younger sibling of a former chief of police.
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ELEVEN years ago, there was a lot of sharp criticism about the selling off of Indonesian water to Singapore. Indonesia's then Coordinating Minister for Economics Radius Prawiro and Singapore's then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong signed an MoU regarding the sale and purchase of Indonesia's "transparent gold" to Singapore. The plan was that more than US$900 million (over Rp8 trillion at the current rate of exchange) would be invested in Pulau
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