Jacqueline Lee

Floods in Singapore - Who should bear the responsibility?

No one such bear responsibility for this as it is a natural disaster. It is not caused by man but by nature. The floods in Singapore are inevitable as recently there has been a lot of burning and causing a lot of humidity in the air, therefore making it rain even more. For the past few months, it was very warm in Singapore but lately, it has been raining so often, the weather has completely changed from humid and warm to cold and windy.

The weather is very favorable to some however, if it continues to rain heavily every day, the drainage will not be able to drain the rain water fast enough and Singapore will be flooded faster.

With the constant flooding in Singapore, most of the construction has been put on hold causing a hold on the circle line completion and schools like CHIJ St. Nicholas girls school to be put on hold.

The government said that orchard will not flood because it has a very good drainage system, unfortunately, that statement was wrong as orchard has been flooding almost every other day if it rains heavily. The shops that are situated underground and car parks will be flooded and causing these shops to lose their business and their spoiling their equipment. This is not the government’s fault as they did not see this disaster coming and it was a sudden change of weather.

The government is doing their best to keep the flooding under control by placing sandbags in front of wheel locks basement shops to prevent it from flooding so quickly. By having these sandbags, it will absorb the water and at the same time slow down the water from flowing to the basement shops. Shops like “Starbucks” or “Wendy’s” and “Hermes” have been temporary closed due to the flood and it has spoiled their electricity, which is now under renovation.

The flooding in Singapore is not as bad compared to other countries like China. China has 701 people dead from the flooding and almost a thousand people injured. People have lost their homes and their property because of the flooding, whereas we only have a few spoiled cars and shops, so we should be thankful.