SINGAPORE: Singapore's national water agency, PUB, is planning to spend S$2 billion in water treatment and infrastructure projects in the next five years.

Responding to queries from Channel NewsAsia, PUB said the investment will be in water infrastructural projects such as NEWater network expansion and upgrading of NEWater plants.

Singapore already has five NEWater plants and the latest will be built at Changi by Sembcorp Utilities.

With the addition of this new plant, NEWater will meet a third of Singapore's current water needs by 2010.

The Changi NEWater Plant is the second NEWater project by the private sector. - CNA/vm