新加坡的第一座中型海水淡化厂将在2005年正式投入生产。新加坡政府保证,经过淡化的海水,甚至会比新加坡现在所饮用的水更干净和安全。新加坡环境发展部代部长林瑞生表示,政府将采用的海水淡化科技非常先进,在淡化海水的过程中,连肉眼所见不到的极其微小的病毒,例如手足口症的病毒都会被滤出。他表示,政府批准采用的海水淡化技术是非常先进的。海水淡化厂必须经过几个阶 Singapore’s first medium-sized desalination plant will be formally put into production in 2005. The government of Singapore pledges that desalinated seawater will be even cleaner and safer than the water it currently consumes in Singapore. Mr LAM Sui-shing, the agency’s deputy minister for environment and development, said the government will adopt a very advanced seawater desalination technology. Filtering the seawater will filter out tiny viruses such as hand-foot-mouth disease that are invisible to the naked eye. He said the government approved the use of desalination technology is very advanced. Desalination plants must go through several steps