I went to Singapore on 13 - 15th October. It was a work trip, explain why I have couple of pictures only. The one interesting about this work visit was we managed to see how the Singaporean produce their 'NeWater' as one of their source of drinking water.
I think if we don't know the history of the NeWater, we might drink it as naturally as mineral water, because it's pack nicely into a 350ml bottle and looks like any drinking water in the market. The visit was exhausting and dry, but none of us open the NeWater bottle to quench the thirst.. hehe, fortunately for me, I brought my orange bottle from the hotel ^___^
NeWater is produce by treatment of the wastewater (should I say sewage?) and the quality by far superseded natural water. When I asked the Singaporean representative, has she drink it? She smiles and didn't directly answers my question, instead she said that "the water we usually drink come from the river/sea/etc is actually from wastewater also, as we know we discharge our wastewater or treated wastewater back to water source (river/sea/etc), so indirectly we are consuming the treated wastewater, same like NeWater, just that for NeWater it's a direct process".
In a way, I know she's right.
I brought two bottle of NeWater, one for the house and one for my office. My hubby drink the NeWater bottle knowing what it is and he said, it's what any water should taste like. The other bottle, none of our office mate dare to drink it, yep it's a matter of perception.
I still don't dare to drink it, hahaha... even though I'm in this industry, to drink the treated wastewater will take a long long long time for me to make my decision, after I make the decision, it will still take me more time to realize that decision, to open the white cap and put the bottle in my mouth :P
