{"id":17054,"date":"2014-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/09\/22\/coping-with-water-stress-and-droughts-in-singapore\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T08:24:09","slug":"coping-with-water-stress-and-droughts-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/09\/22\/coping-with-water-stress-and-droughts-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping with water stress and droughts in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17055 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/drought-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/drought-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/drought.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Increasingly unpredictable weather is making Singapore more vulnerable to high water stress and droughts. In light of Singapore\u2019s prolonged dry spell in early 2014, a team from the FASS Geography Department have identified the development of groundwater and the reduction in evaporative losses in open water bodies as two internal avenues to address our vulnerability to water stress. In their article, \u201cIncreasing Singapore\u2019s resilience to drought\u201d, the team also calls for boosting the efficiency of our Four National Tap System\u2014 one of the world\u2019s most remarkable water resource strategies\u2014 and the need for Singapore to foster cooperation with neighbouring countries in reducing uncontrolled burning in their jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>The team of FASS Geography professors include Associate Professor Alan D. Ziegler, Associate Professor James P. Terry, Dr. Grahame J.H. Oliver, Dr. Daniel A. Friess, Mr. Chuah Chong Joon, Dr. Winston T.L. Chow, and Professor Robert J. Wasson.<\/p>\n<p>Link to the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/?sg-publication=increasing-singapore%E2%80%99s-resilience-to-drought-by-alan-ziegler\">http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/?sg-publication=increasing-singapore%E2%80%99s-resilience-to-drought-by-alan-ziegler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: The Straits Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly unpredictable weather is making Singapore more vulnerable to high water stress and droughts. In light of Singapore\u2019s prolonged dry spell in early 2014, a team from the FASS Geography Department have identified the development of groundwater and the reduction in evaporative losses in open water bodies as two internal avenues to address our vulnerability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27897,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054\/revisions\/27897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}