Adapting to more extreme weather
- What is extreme weather?
- Why is there a need to adapt to more extreme weather?
- How can Singapore adapt to more extreme weather?
Weather monitoring through weather model.
Flood alert through SMS and Telegram channel.
Public education - how to respond to alert and flash flood in Singapore.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/weather-forecast-flooding-extreme-weather-3784631
70% of Singapore's coast protected by hard structures.
Dam gates to help divert storm water into the sea.
About 16% of the coast are mangroves and mudflat.
Reclaimed land are at least 4 metres above sea level.
Polder at Pulau Tekong.
Large dykes keep sea water out to reclaim land.
Set-up of the Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute (CFI) Singapore
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