The Marina Barrage

Built across the mouth of the Marina Channel, the Marina Barrage creates Singapore’s 15th reservoir, and the first in the heart of the city.

With a catchment area of 10,000 hectares, or one-sixth the size of Singapore, the Marina catchment is the island’s largest and most urbanised catchment.

Together with two other new reservoirs, the Marina Reservoir will boost Singapore’s water catchment from half to two-third’s of the country’s land area.



The Marina Barrage is the result of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s vision nearly two decades ago when he envisaged damming the mouth of the Marina Channel to create a freshwater reservoir.

Please visit this website for more information
http://www.pub.gov.sg/marina/Pages/default.aspx

Our Waters Programme

PUB’s Our Waters programme aims to nurture a sense of ownership and encourage Singaporeans to be guardians of our water.




On 21st July 2009, PUB welcomed Mayflower Secondary School as a partner of Our Waters Programme.

We will work together to take care of the waters of Marina Reservoir.

The Our Waters programme seeks to encourage groups from the 3P sectors of the community:

People (schools, grassroots organizations, town councils and non-government organizations) Private (corporations) Public (government organizations)

This is the report from Channel NewAsia


On Sunday, students from Singapore Polytechnic and 21 secondary schools signalled their commitment by adopting the Marina Reservoir.

Mayor for North West CDC, Dr Teo Ho Pin — a champion of water safety in Singapore — was also at the event.

Since its opening last year, the Marina Barrage and Reservoir has played host to many activities and attracted more than 400,000 visitors.

So as part of the two—year adoption programme, students aged 13 to 17 will conduct water—quality testing and clean—up activities at the reservoir.

They will also be volunteer guides at the Sustainable Singapore Gallery.


Channel NewsAsia - Monday, June 22











The YEGs were at the Marina Barrage on Sunday to start the ball rolling. Together with Cicada Tree Eco Place, we put up an exhibition on Eco Living in Singapore.


They were also there to promote Shoo Mozzie, the all natural 100% organic insect repellent.


By encouraging Singaporean to use natural ingredient, we have started the process of encourage Singaporean to use less chemical and more natural product.

For example, when we start to use eco-friendly, insect repellent, soaps and detergents, we are using products that are free from phosphates or petrochemicals.









































Dr Teo Ho Pin the Guest of Honour at the Singapore International Water Festivals was presented with a bottle of the Shoo Mozzie.




Mrs Lim, our principal were also there to show her support for the YEGs.














Later on, a group of our students who were taking part in the dragon boat race visited our booth.













Our Choir also performed at the event.



















Our dragon boat team putting their heart and soul into the race.

Singapore International Water Festival (SIWF)

This is a roving exhibition for schools.This attractive and comprehensive poster exhibition seeks to impart important information on eco-living, carbon footprint and how to make a difference!
This exhibition contains simple and practical green tips for daily eco-living, written in easy-to-read text with attractive native wildlife pictures.






The location of the education booths is at the Courtyard Central, in front of pump room, beside the staircase to the 2nd level facing the Information Centre of the Barrage. (along the stretch where the people are standing in the picture). The booths will be directly visible from the main entrance.

The YEG will also be selling Shoo! Mozzie, badges from Cicada Tree Eco Place, recycled bags and diary made from recycled paper.

Here are some places where the reving exhibition has been too.



A vision of Hope --- Jane Goodall Symposium at the Singapore American School
Envirofest 2009 at the Toa Payoh HDB Hub