Sunday, July 25, 2010
Floods in Singapore: who should bear the responsibility?
It has been a few days of heavy rainfall in Singapore such as it can even cause flooding in a ‘First-world’ country referred by people to our country. This is shocking news such as newspaper is always publishing about Singapore flooding in places nowadays. Many people are wondering what the causes of flooding are and who is responsible for this happening.
There are people who are blaming the PUB for not maintaining the drainage system. They also think that Marina Barrage was designed wrongly therefore, not able to drain the water well even though it was a great idea or people operating the Marina Barrage is not doing their jobs well. What do you think about it?
In my opinion, I think it is a natural disaster and we cannot do anything to stop it. However, even though raining is a natural happening, humans also do contribute to the flooding.
It might be due to humans littering into the canals when they are lazy to throw it into a bin etc, therefore, clogging up the drainage system. This will not allow the rainwater to be drain easily as compared to a no litter’s one. It can also be due to us contributing to global warming by driving cars exhausting fumes, or using things that release CFC, changing the weather. Also, if PUB wants to solve this problem by carrying out projects, I do not think citizens will be willing to fork out money and man power to help for free.
Therefore, it is actually us should bear the responsibility. I am sure if we help out by not throwing litters into canals etc, it will help reduced the flooding. So, stop blaming each other!
-liangping
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