How a City With No Water of Its Own Became Asia's Richest | Singapore

Singapore manufactures its own drinking water from sewage, imports 95% of its electricity as gas it does not have, ships in more than 90% of its food from 187 countries, and built nearly a quarter of its own land out of imported sand. By every measure that usually decides whether a place can survive, this island of almost six million should not — and yet it is one of the richest, most reliable cities on Earth. This is the story of the hidden machinery that keeps Singapore running: the Four National Taps, the NEWater loop that recycles the city's used water, the automated megaport at Tuas, the gas tankers and undersea cables, and the one borrowed dam across the border in Malaysia that half the nation's water still quietly depends on. In this documentary, discover how a city with no river, no fuel, and almost no farmland engineered its way to near-total self-sufficiency — and why, in Singapore, the wealth and the vulnerability turned out to be the same thing, counting down to the year 2061. Take a breath. Stay a while — and understand how a place with nothing of its own stays alive. ▶ Subscribe:    / @wiredearth4k   #Singapore #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WorldsinMotion #SoutheastAsia #WaterSecurity