“‘ The biggest challenge we had to face as contrivers, up until the final stages of the design, was fear of water, ’ Dreiseitl says ”( Rinaldi, 2013,p. The “ Kallang River was finagled into a concrete conduit to efficiently convey storm water from the fleetly citifying satellite municipalities of Bishan and Ang Mo Kio in the 1960s. Rather than another 24- cadence wide concrete channel, the new design is grounded on the idea of using the parkland to serve as a flood tide plain Rinaldi, 2013). The population is rather large, with over 5 million people( Central Intelligence Agency,n. crucial to achieving this is the Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters Programme( ABC Waters), which was launched in 2006 by Singapore’s Public Utilities Board. Flood Control While the concrete conduit that was firstly in the demesne may not have sounded affable or aesthetically nice, it was functional. ABC Waters Programme According to the Public Utilities Board, the Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters Programme “ seeks to transfigure our aqueducts and budgets beyond their utilitarian function into focal points for recreational and community conditioning. These systems are openings to transfigure premises and areas that are manicured and sterile, common in Singapore, into further engaging multifunctional spaces. 20 comes from original water catchments, which now make up two- thirds of Singapore’s land area( cantina, Singapore, b). In the end, this program linked over 100 implicit systems, with 23 of them enforced as of June 2014( cantina, Singapore, 2014b).
