MEWR to spend S$1.75 billion in 2015
The Ministry of Environment and Water Resources is expected to spend S$1.75 billion this year, up 17.3 per cent from last year. Key initiatives:
The Ministry of Environment and Water Resources is expected to spend S$1.75 billion this year, up 17.3 per cent from last year. Key initiatives:
• Build another 10 new hawker centres by 2027
• Tightening of industrial emissions standards
• Extension of Early Turnover Scheme to allow 59,000 more Euro II and III commercial diesel vehicles to qualify
• Third desalination plant to be built in Tuas
• New national voluntary e-waste recycling partnership programme to be launched
• New food waste recycling pilots: Two at hawker centres and one centralised centre in Clementi