Abstract
Ensuring a sustainable water supply is crucial in all economies. Technological breakthrough has made possible the idea of using membranes to treat water. Recycling water and desalination are substitutes for the traditional water treatment process. While sea water is plentiful, the process of desalination depends largely on electricity, making the process costly. Singapore's success in NEWater (recycled water) depended on its stepwise advancement of membrane technology with sophisticated complementary engineering systems based on advanced information technology. This advancement contributes to electricity efficiency improvement in desalination which in turn accelerates dramatic advancement of the complementary engineering systems. Synergistic effects between NEWater and desalination can be expected by constructing a hybrid management of technology fusing indigenous strength and the effect of learning leading to a new phase in Singapore's NEWater development and also the trigger of its desalination endeavor. By means of an empirical analysis of Singapore's pioneer challenge, this paper demonstrates the significance of this endeavor for global sustainability.
Highlights
Ensuring asustainablewater supplyiscrucial inall economies.Technological breakthrough has made possible the idea of using membranes to treat water
This paper attempts to identify the synergistic effects between NEWater and desalination water via the hybrid management of technology model in illustrating the successful fusion of indigenous strength and the effects of l earni ng
After vari ous study tri ps abroad and wi th the advancement i n membrane technology, it was decided that recycling water and desalination were the two feasible sources (Tan et al, 2009)
Summary
Abstr act Ensuring asustainablewater supplyiscrucial inall economies.Technological breakthrough has made possible the idea of using membranes to treat water. This super-ambitious challenge can only be enabled by hybrid. This paper attempts to identify the synergistic effects between NEWater and desalination water via the hybrid management of technology model in illustrating the successful fusion of indigenous strength and the effects of l earni ng. The authors attempt to apply the hybrid management model used in the study by Watanabe et al (2009) to map the synergistic effects between NEWater and desalination in Singapore. Desalination are alternative sources of water supply for Singapore and they are identified as the unconventional sources of water
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
