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7 Aug 2012, 7.02PM

2 comments & replies |by REACH Administrator | Air, Sea and Land, My Habitat

National water agency Public Utility Board (PUB) plans to install another 162 closed circuit television cameras (CCTVs) around Singapore by end of this year to better track floods, vandalism and unsafe activity. Based on the tender document, the new CCTVs will be paired with rain and flood sensors to provide early flood updates to the PUB.

“The CCTVs can also help the agency to monitor water quality in the outlet drains to reservoirs, by detecting signs of illegal discharge such as illegal chemicals," said a PUB spokesman.

PUB currently has 66 CCTVs installed at various flood-prone areas and hot spots across Singapore.

With PUB opening up of most of the reservoirs for recreational activities since 2004, there arise a greater need for surveillance. The new CCTVs would help the agency’s enforcement duties, for example in the area of littering.

Read the full Straits Times’ article “PUB to install 162 CCTVs by year-end” and share your thoughts on the installation with us.

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7 Aug 2012, 8.13PM

Will all the Government agencies get together and get their "act" together.

PUB - Install camera

LTA - Install camera

Police - Install camera

Traffic Police - Install camera

NEA - Install camera

Civil Defence - Install camera

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4 Nov 2012, 12.17AM

To prevent loss from future floods, PUB must do preventive measures by building effective drainage system not reactive measures using CCTVs. Spend more time and money on solving the problem and they don't even need CCTVs if there is no flood with good drainage system in place

This is what happened now. No capable leader to solve the problem and let the problem grow till cannot handle, leave to whoever takeover to correct the problems. (eg. housing, transport, immigration). Make people frustrated and five years later than tell people we will solve the problem but instead it is just correcting the earlier mistake and bring us back to original state again.

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