Adding insult to injury for Woodlands residents in contaminated water tank case
May 23rd, 2011 | 
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The residents living in Woodlands Block 686B who had drunk contaminated water from a maid’s dead body due to the incompetence of the PAP Town Council will only be offered $10 as a ‘compensation’.
Despite a petition by some 80 residents demanding that the management of Sembawang Town Council stepped down, they have offered only a half-baked apology. To add salt to their wounds, the residents are given only a $10 rebate off their next utility bill.
According to residents who attended a dialogue session with PUB and the Town Council last Saturday, security around the rooftop water tanks is very lax with foreign workers spotting going into the room at the rooftop together with women. They suspect that the workers bathed in the tanks and may even washed there after having sex with the women.
While the PAP MPs in Sembawang GRC continue to ‘wayang’ and refuse to take the Town Council management to task, the Singapore Democratic Party has issued a press starement calling on the Town Council to be accountable for the shocking lapse:
“It is unfortunate that security measures for water tanks in the Sembawang Town Council are so lax. How is it that workers are allowed such easy access to an installation as vital as our water supply? Is this the standard practice for all Town Councils across the country? On behalf of the residents of the Sembawang GRC, the SDP wants accountability from the Town Council. Who is responsible for such a breach? What actions are taken to hold the officers accountable?”
Going by the PAP’s usual ‘practice’, heads are unlikely to roll and business will continue as usual after some whitewashing by the state media to make the PAP look good.
As for the affected residents, they will either have to relocate or continue drinking ‘clean’ water from the ‘washed’ water tank as tested and certified by their PAP MP Vikram Nair.
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what a joke !
$10/= !
get real , woodlanders !
you have been cheated !
sue for much much more !
the town council is very very rich !
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yup very unfortunate it is and it just give the terrorist another great idea to how to attack singapore cause town council have failed in their job to look out for the residents and to annouce important message and information.
i think woodland town council definitely need to step down, it not just a town issue, it has become a national issue as well.
we want a singaporean first singapore not a pap or foreigner first singapore
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Hmmm….potential “terrorist” wuld be interested in all Pappy’s managed Town Councils.
First a “limping man” can escaped from a toilet , now F/ts can gain easy access to water tank ….ya, happen only once in 50 years!
Well,who to blame ? out of the 60% Pappy supporters -probably 40% stays in landed ,and 105 “bootlickers” ,whilst the remaining 10% are
just ” indecisive,lost & timid & spineless” !
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The residents living in Woodlands Block 686B to those who vote for PAP and had drunk contaminated water from a maid’s dead body due to the incompetence of the PAP Town Council will only be offered $10 as a ‘compensation’ Please don’t complain and accept it
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Ha..Ha..Ha… barely days after swearing in of the new cabinet and its troubles everywhere for the PAP..
Such an inauspicious start for the PM’s new team.
Compensation of only $10 is a bloody joke when many residents had already gulped the contaminated water without them being informed early enough not to consume the water..
If this had happened in the US or other western countries, the town council would have been sued till their pants dropped.
These 3 ministers must be taken to task in regards to this water tank saga.
HDB Minister and MP for Sembawang GRC – Cow Boon Wan
Health Minister – Gan Kim Yong
Enviroment and Water Minister – Sissy Vivian.
It’s strange why Minister Cow is keeping a deafening silence so far since he is also MP for Sembawang..
$10 compensation is a disgrace.. The Govt should waive all utility bills of these affected residents for at least a month.
I read that all religious leaders of various faiths had conducted some prayers for the dead maid on top of that affected block….
Since it has been an unlucky start for Pinky’s new team… well maybe he too should summon those religious leaders to Istana and conduct some prayers for him and his Cabinet team..
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ask the Town Council ppl that if they will want my $10 if they drink water with a corpse inside.
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Accountability is what people want from the PAP government which has been getting away with murder all these years. Giving a $10 rebate is a bloody insult! The residents want ACCOUNTABILITY for the security breach in addition to disinfecting/replacing the water tank, not the $10! Goes to show LHL’s recent promises to ‘work with the people’ is all wayang.
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Woodlands residents concerned…yolu have been neglected and now insulted…$10 for the dirt they made you drink and bathe with etc..cooked porridge for your children with microbes from dead body..for $10.00 to buy their jobs…INSULT…Towards Democracy 2016
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An inquiry chaired by an independent contractor with no affiliation to PAP, Town council, PUB should be conducted to ensure that all roof top tank storage is safe and only authorized personnel are allowed entry into this secure installations.
What do you say PM Lee about this?
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Please get Khaw Boon Wan to standby for the next “water drinking” session. Afterall, his heart worth only $8.
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Lives of the ordinary citizens is only worth that much ?
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“As for the affected residents, they will either have to relocate or continue drinking ‘clean’ water from the ‘washed’ water tank as tested and certified by their PAP MP Vikram Nair.”
Yeah, well Vikram Nair didn’t go through the ordeal of drinking dead-body filtered water.
I think there should be a nation wide blitz on all HDB water tanks; lord knows what lurks beneath…..
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locals are blockheads, that is what the manager of woodlands town council deem
why not sue the town council and manager, start with minister, for trying to poision blk residents.
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Another watershed.
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A humiliation… $10 for rebate or to buy their mouths?
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BLOOD WATER !!
Only from the Horror movies
Now showing in woodlands !!
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PM Lee,
Why are you keeping quiet! Plse come up and have your judgements for the residents of Woodlands.
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Yo… woodlander… give u drink bloody mary bubble tea with $10 reward… U still wanna complain is it???
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‘Total Defense’ is only for the consumption of the ordinary Singaporeans, to get everyone into a hifalutin hoopla of nationalism.
‘Total Defense’ stops at the ladder leading up to the ‘water tanks’ managed by the PAP Town Councils.
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More startling revelations have emerged from the MPS. The residents suspect that the foreign workers might have been using the drinking waters to bathe and wash up after sex. I did a blog posting about it here:
http://singstatistician.blogspot.com/2011/05/are-foreign-workers-using-our-drinking.html
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Since singapore can allow Lee Kuan Yew to be PM next SM and then MM whom was a traitor during Japanese Occupation.
So, TC General Manager have more reasons to stay.
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Come to think about it, is this Soon Min Sin the same person Hon Sec in STTA who was strongly in support of Er Lee Bee Wah when she sacked Liu in 2009 over the question of integrity and professionalism in his work, though Liu has helped to bring in the Olympic Silver? Should get Er Lee’s comment on this matter as well… Oh same for Teo Ser Luck.
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MPs are worth millions,
but their bosses, the people are only worth S$10.
I dunno know what to say.
Aljunied voted and regretted they don’t have body in their water tanks.
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Silly! $10 buys nothing! What about all the food thrown away due to them being cooked in the contaminated water and all the inconvenience caused? The TC should be sued for all the inconveniences caused to the residents. Who’s responsible? Don’t give me the honest mistake reason… WKS no longer here.
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Woodland residents voted for PAP. Now they got what they voted for. I wonder if this incident and insult will open their eyes to the arrogance of PAP.
But I pity those who didn’t vote for PAP – screwed by PAP supporters and now by PAP controlled Town Council. Tough luck la, buddy.
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This MUST be taken as a very CRITICAL ISSUE !!! As it is health related to all residents in the blocks affected.
If there is no accountability, it opens the “road” for all other Town Councils to ignore the security and health of all the residents.
Also, this can imply to all other critical issues which also DO NOT NEED to be accountable !!!
Can the Town Council ensure the residents that the water piping connecting to every each individual units for the affected blocks are TOTAL CLEAN ??? Problem might not be just the water tank !!!
The HDB Price for the units in the affected HDB Blocks are now on the downhill as NO ONE will want to stay in such an unhygienic living condition !!!
We need ACCOUNTABILITY and a TOTAL CLEAN UP of the water supply channels – WATER TANK and PIPING to all HDB units !!!
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So long are the days when the government said that our water is safe to drink straight from the tap….
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It’s horrible!!! How can there be no total defence?
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Don’t you think this whole site is just over dramatizing things? How can you phrase things like that you’re twisting the whole point of everything? It’s amazing how you link from here to there.
If you really want to blame the government, everything under the sun can be linked to blame them. They must be some godly superhuman to be able to fend off all your accusations.
Let the moderators and admins of Temasekreview ascend to the government seats and see how they screw up Singapore. You’ll be glad to see another site pop up to throw accusations at you over bird droppings on their car or some random shit.
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Its shocking but its the truth that such a thing can happen to “well managed pap wards” compared to msm labelled “opposition slums”.
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It’s really ridiculous guys take a moment and READ your comments. All of you are just trying to sound funny and comedic about everything. Why is that only on your mind when thinking of comments?
Is there no intellectual complaints or remarks out there? I really do not want to believe Singaporeans speak like this and are so slapstick at their own amusement.
To fellow anti-PAP citizens your comments are hilarious, and you’re a joker.
But to the general public reading your comments, you are the joke.
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Thanks for the $10! I really need the money! Just another $1.20 and i can buy my cigaratte! Good job!
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You all wanted to vote for PAP rite ?
You can see their true colors now after the election
Congrats !
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It seems all our emergencies are linked to the word “water”:
- water contracts with Malaysia
- Newater; btw, what % of recycled water are added back to reservoirs now?
- Orchard flooding
- The escape from Whitley Road water closet
- Bloody water in a Woodlands water tank; albeit localised, it was a national concern on security and accountablility.
- And the unthinkable: Will a tsunami ever happen near and hit Singapore since we are surrounded by water?
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I hope the 60 odd percent in Sembawang GRC that voted PAP feel better after this act of transparent accountability. Majulah PAP! Majulah Singapura!
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Three out of five aspects of defence have been neglected over the last decade in favour of Economic Defence to pay for ministers salaries rise. With the sudden influx of foreigners in Singapore, it’s just impossible to have the other defence as a nation.
All Singaporeans need to wake up now before it’s too late!!!
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The $10 rebate means those “si lan” water that you drunk, bathed or used for cooking will be consider Free of Charge….
You call this a compensation?
I am willing to pay you the same price if you drink the water too….
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So far they drink the water, got kanna any desease or not? Or alway got ghost hanging round them?
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Why rebate? Where will the money come from? TC fund? Don’t forget that TC fund are collected from the residents base on household…
TC made the mistake, they should pay the for the damages due to their negligence….this is a civil case….why use TC fund….
Any insurance coverage?
TC even said they will cover all the medical costs if due to the water….again, who pays?
Imagine roof upgrading, and a brick falls from the top and kill someone below…..there should be some form of insurance coverage…
The victim family can take up a civil lawsuit against the TC for damages….will TC awards the damages from the TC fund?
This part need to be addressed, else the rest of the residents in the same GRC will be short changed….
Pls don’t get me wrong. I am against the compensation to the residents of Blk 686…..I believe there should be more accountability and transparency how the TC fund is used….
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Probably can consider a class action suit against TC negligence.
Alot to be claim, Psychological/Phobia claims etc.
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can the residents of the block bring up a class action suit?
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SDP and James Gomez where are you on this incident…. ????
If TC decided to change the water tank, I believe you should be on the ground to supervise the entire process…..
Will the old water tank be destroyed and melted?
Will TC or the contractor recycles this water tank to some other HDB precinct?
SDP needs to be around to show your present on the ground, and be prepare to serve……don’t pop up one every 5 years….
You need to do the same like the ballot papers….make sure that they are sent to the incinerator….
This is a good opportunity to demonstrate your willingness to serve….don’t miss it…..
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I wonder if Mas Selamat took showers in the water tanks after his muddy sweaty escape from WKS children’s detention camp. Ah well, already drank and digested years ago. Let’s move on.
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Hold a petition and go for a recall exercise to have the MPs recalled. Don’t let these loonies get away with it. These are the people supposedly in charge of the Town Council. Goddamn you PAP! What kind of lousy people you have….PM Lee should go eat shit. No balls to sack WKS, and now this….
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and one more to ad:
- the recent watershed election
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VOTERS OF SEMBAWANG GRC…YOU HAVE MANDATED PAP TO BE YOUR SERVANT…NOW YOUR SERVANT TELLS YOU TO DRINK DEAD BODY FLUID…SO NOW YOU ALL LON LON..WHY MAKE SO MUCH NOISES? YOU STILL DONT KNOW YOUR SERVANT ARE ‘DEAF’ TO NOISES? 3 WORDS FOR YOU ALL “DESERVE YOU RIGHT!”
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are woodlanders so dumb and stupid?:Show them U people are not dumb & stupid. Call them to buy whole life insurance for your whole family plus compensation for yours whole house utensil & loging.Next Election vote for more PaP again.Once Bitten Twice Shy.
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Sometimes, I see that the lights are on in the water tank enclosure on the rooftop of my block in the dead of night. Goodness knows what is going on up there in the light of the Woodlands episode.
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Just get ready to sue the Town Council.
Let the law decide for the amount of compensation.
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Call the MP here, I masterbate my sperm in a glass of water N let them drink.Answer tasty & good.
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47 MP:There is nothing to do with the opposition.(SDP). Those daft voter in woodland deserve it.Should call PaP to buy whole life insurance for the whole family.
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Heads must roll.
Contractor boss of that worker must be heavily punished. Heavily fine.
Town council boss must step down for failing in securing the water tanks. And for failing to warn the residents not to drink or use the residual water in the pipes. Sack him!
All town council will then wake up their stupid idea and be transparent in reporting.
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………IF THE MAID GOT “AID” OR OTHER DISASE HOW HUH?????…………………
DIE LOR…….KNN $10 CAN COVER WHAT,THEY THINK THOSE RESIDENCE ARE BEGGER….COME TO INCREASE PUB VERY CLEVER,COME TO SAFTY…0….
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it takes a FT will bring down a TC and GRC
although a dead one
how ironic
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Not only the security measures for water tanks in the Sembawang Town Council are so lax and allowed such easy access to an installation as vital as our water supply. Aljunied Town council is the same. I had complained to Town Council when I saw workers in and out the lower level water tank and roof. But they ignored my complaint.
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Drink a glass of ‘cadaver’ tasting water and get $10, any takers??
Bloody marvellous isnt it that JTC and MP Nair flame the fire by adding insult to injury!
Residents health could have been at real risk from consuming the cadaver contaminated H2o, and all Town Council can come up with is a pathetic tenner.
JTC and MP Nair should personally visit every household in that block, kowtow and apologize, as well as offer to absorb their PUB bill for one year while the residents monitor their performance for one year. Only when they passed the probation period, then they dont have to be sacked en mass.
Please la JTC use some sensitivity and plenty common sense when responding to LIVID residents.
Compensate them properly or step down – no one should have to live with your mistake.
Place yourself in their shoeS – how do you like it that your stupid town council staff was derelict in duty and you ended up ‘a drinking cannibal’ – REPULSIVE RIGHT.
They were and still are right to be livid. I don’t agree for demand to sack you lot en mass, but I feel you lot should have the decency to compensate them in appropriate measures to reflect the severity of your negligence. DON’T PLAY PLAY! It’s not masak masak.
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Bunch of scavengers really, jumping at every chance to insult the government with your arsenal of lackluster corny jokes and broken english.
Says alot about the opposition supporters doesn’t it?
Explains why even Kopitiams and void decks erupt with cheers when an Opposition party wins.
The only reason why PAP supporters keep quiet is because of how rowdy and bold the opposition supporters are. In actual fact they are all around you staring at your immature actions and comments.
Think about it. Especially those of you who take your jokes/arguements to Facebook. You don’t realise how many people wish to take you off their list.
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From this event, you can tell what the new MP is going to do? They are really very Green in the job given to them, do not understand the feeling How are they going to serve the people? $10 to solve, and still have to wait for Police report what a BIG joke it is.
Now who is the Minster in charge of this constituency? I thought they are more people oriented and leave such a BIG issue for the junior to handle.
Well whose fault? 50.1% of people chose them who to blame
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sue town council? who pay? OTHER residents eventually as the town council has to raise charges…..
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And your fellow supporter KJ Harban Singh above seems to be an excellent example. Now we know how the supporters for Hougang and Aljunied GRC are like.
Just a pack of giggling hyenas jumping at every move the government makes to tear off their flesh. Where are the more reasonable and intellectual opposition supporters that don’t only know how to joke and stir up anger in everyone. Show some mature thought in your reasonings and you wont be looked down like your fellow supporters.
Man…I hope a large part of Singapore is still sane.
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Can anyoen tell me, is this MP an NSF ? He serve NS ?
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To the voters of PAP Woodlands, you had been ungratefully rewarded by your PAP.Live with it. To the voters of Alternative party in Woodlands, it is time to collect petition from Woodlands and nation wide to express our continued disgust for PAP. Afterall, we voted against them and we should be brave to move on and collect petition against WTC. Then we can convince PAP voters how gullible they are.
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SDP members are coming down to meet the residents of the block in person. Dr Gomez is among of them. Where is kwah boon wan and company? Still hiding away but send an Indian guy to wayang drink the water.
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$10. The ppl get what they voted for. Expect more of such cases.
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A Generation Y member cannot spell masturbate, tsk tsk tsk….
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@Serious
I would rather read a joke than a lie.
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Compensation using money, at any amount is only acceptable by few people. The present and the 2 past PM are eg. Say anything about them which is degrading is ok, just pay them when they sue you.
The issue here is not about compensation. A woman is dead, a suspect is arrested. Both happens to be foreign talents. A security issue as to why access to the water tank was compromised is at task.
All male singaporeans who when thru NS would know that as training in war games that the power supply and water supply are some of the most important structure to protect. With power down, most communications gear would go..etc, human could not survive long without water or the enemy could simply posion the water.( Although there’s a rumour that our CO would shoot us first if he were to lose the air-conditioning)
The Home ministry made a big hoo haa when some artist paid a visit to the MRT depot. ‘Cripple’ the communications or community they said. Didn’t really understand it.( I was one of the guys whom believe the CO’s thread)
But I still think they should do some serious stuff about security. If they can be so serious when a foreign talent painted one of our MRT(quite nice I would say), they should do more when a body is found in the tank. Or are they waiting for an artist to paint the tank?
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Correction:
I am NOTagainst the compensation….
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Hi,
The right thing for TC and PAP to do is to let those affected household to change to another unit in other location plus compensation for shifting. This should be done as soon as possible. Then all the water pipes will have to be change and the affected tank will have to be close permanently.
Regards
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$10 is peanuts!
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It should not be just monetary compensation. Probably a full free of charge medical check up and actions that have been taken to ensure that there are no repetition and security lapses in the future. Will be good to set up an independent security audit agency to ensure compliance of all security processes and procedures.
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I live in another pap controlled GRC and for years, I have been telling the town council staff that I often see all sorts of “workers” going up to the roof top at all times of the day and even at night, I can hear the sound of footsteps on top. It was realy worrying, so I called the TC. I suggested that only the TC should have the keys to the rooftop and not the contractors who then duplicate keys for the subcontractors, so you end up with all sorts of people having access to the rooftop. but the reply was typical pap standard :”this is the way things are done”.
This is how a typical pap TC works – they don’t listen to good advice. Now, this body in the tank is a wakeup call, an incident waiting to happen.
If the TC had acted responsibly and professionally with the resdients’ welfare & saftety in mind, the woodlands sham wouldn’t have happened.
For the people of the woodlands block, my sympathies go to you. I have tried my best to warn the TCs about this issue but it all fell on deaf ears. At least I did my part.
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To KJ Harban Singh….
Pls pay $10 to rebate them!!!
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This is crazy! nThe resale price will surely drop. Nobody wants to stay there until they change the tanks.
All the Mps should resign, so that we can have a by-election. Surely this is the fault of the Mps who were only to busy celebrating their victory and neglecting their duties.
A Review committe should be conveyed and a finding should be made public.
There was a possibilty of hundreds of people dying from this incident. This just not a police case, this not just a mischief act. It could have been a new way to really kill Singaporean by throwing a dead body into water tanks, knowing very well how we trust drinking water here. At one time WKS ridicule Singaporeans for not reporting a bag left unattended in a test case, but this case they are making seems like noting. THis crazy man.
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Wot is it with Ministers, MPs and public servants? Is it so beyond them to say “sorry.”
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Being anti PAP is one thing but I would very much like to bring to the attention of Sembawang voters your rights as residents. You have legal rights for redress from the Town councils. Singaporeans have for too long been made servile and believing in the invincibility of the government. You have the right to question and to expect proper answers to your doubts. They are your servants. Dont forget.Wake up to your rights!
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This incident also tells us that some foreigner come here to create social problem too. Why PAP can’t see the problem?
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Woodland resident. Consolidate petition letters, complains and money. Hired a lawyer and sue the TC, PUB already stated that TC is fully responsible. I really pity those children who have drank from the TAP directly. Yeecks…..
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You are looking at how detached , decrepit and tardy the whole
system is where the rubber meets the road. If you think changes
are in the pipeline, think again!
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right right right,
I think all those who post stupid comment should stop drinking water from the tap lah…
I dont see petition from so called 80 residents and i stayed just next to block.
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Singaporeans were informed many hours after Mas Selamat escaped from the prison.
Woodlands Block 686A residents were only informed at about 5 pm when the town council already knew the murder case at about 10 am. They just never learnt. What an insult to to give $10 rebate! Is this the way the town coincil handle situation like this?
By the way, I already given up this town council (including the Woodlands CC) years ago, many issues I brought up in the past remained unsolved!
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SUEEEEEEEEEEE THM LA SUE TOWN COUNCIL… WE WAT DOG AH $10 , SUE THM
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I want to get to the bottom how this bangla and friends got access to the rooftop water tank?
Is he the supervisor? How then he has the keys? What hanky panky business is going up there? Bangla and friends can be doing all kinds of sick things with the water and who knows?
Will the relevant authorities do an investigation. Too many corrupted things done by the town councils, I can’t even trust anybody associated to the ruling party now.
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what a shame. Trying to shut everyone off with S$10? The biggest joke on earth. Change the tank for heaven sake!!!
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AFTERMATH OF GE 2011 – RESALE VALUE OF SEMBAWANG FLATS DROPS
THE RESALE VALUE OF UNITS IN THIS BLOCK WILL GO DOWN DRASTICALLY AS MANY HAVE NOTED THE BLOCK NUMBER.
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This GM ought to step down. No sense of civic responsibility.
Some time ago, my block was vandalised by several loansharks, including splashing paint at letter boxes. I emailed this chap and requested that TC instal just ONE cctv camera at the lobby as this would help to deter some illegal acts.
Here’s his response:
“We thank you for bringing the matter to our attention and your comments on the CCTV cameras. Kindly allow us to further explain on the installation and running of a CCTV system. To enable a proper functioning of a CCTV system, we need to have a complete set of DVR and other accessories including cabling, in addition to CCTV cameras as mentioned in your email. Based on the tender results of the CCTV system in our pilot project and our computation of Service and conservancy charges ( S & C charges) collected from residents at your block, the costs of installing a set of CCTV system to monitor the lift lobbies at your blk is equivalent to 10 % of the total one-year S & C charges ( operating fund ) payable by the 60 households staying at your blk. This is excluding maintenance and future replacement costs. The DVR supplier has informed us that the life span of such equipment which runs 24- hour a day is about 2 to 3 years. This is confirmed by the many DVRs we purchased during the pilot project which became defective after two years of installation. We therefore seek your kind understanding that we need to be prudent in making such decision due to the high costs involved which will ultimately affect the S & C charges payable by residents.”
And guess what? Khaw’s ward has several blocks covered by CCTVs. Just cos my MP is NOT Khaw, and we are denied CCTV.
He should gracefully step down.
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the FTs ask only for $10. why do sigaporeans need more ?
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Pity the residents living in that block, not just that they had suffered fear of drinking contaminated water, their property price would probably drop. All because of the Town Council’s lax in security. The Town council should compensate their lost.
I believe this incompetency don’t just happened in Woodland, I was staying at the highest floor in one of the clementi flat few years back, the access to the roof top was most of the time left unlock. When you call the town council, they will come and lock it but after a few days, it was left unlock again.
Security is important, which the gahmen always say, we must not let our guards down. So what happened to the security of those residents living in HDB? Are their lives not important? What if the terrorist come to do a mass killing by poisoning the water?
I believe there should be an inquiry setup to investigate and punish those who are irresponsible, that will help to ensure the rest of the Town Council pulling up their socks.
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Your windows fall off from your flat you are resposible, you will be jailed and fine. Water tank got contaminated due to security lax of the TC, who is resposible???? Who is going to Jail and fine?
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Sue the town council and manager. All the water pipes must be changed from the water tank to every home for block 686B Woodlands at the cost of the town council. If you were to cut open the water pipes, you will find all the mud stuck in there especially in pipe joints like the elbow and tee socket. The blood stain will be caught in the mud and will remain in the pipes for many years. This would be very unhygienic and may pose a threat to the health of the residents.
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S$10 per resident equals …..happiness? The fellow who proposed this must be living in yesterday’s world…..still thinks we can be bought with…….S$10 peanuts. Well, Woodlanders got what they deserve by voting in the same Town Councillors. Including the fellow who drank the water to prove himself. Yuk! Yuk!
Cool, the SDP is keeping away from this since they are not wanted by these Woodlanders. Maybe, the block should discuss with SDP for support to change the tank. After all, some Ministry can afford those expensive chairs recently……and if salaries are cut, the savings can go to a new tank. Meantime, just wait and keep drinking!
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I seriously think ALL HDB water tanks should be investigated and security measure implimented. I do not believe simply that only Woodlands Town Council allow ‘foreign talent’ to ‘manage’ our tanks !
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MY friend from the block called me to say …since drinking the contaminated water, he has been having nightmares and funny dreams.
I don’t know what to say to him.
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There was a time you are given opportunity to vote for opposition, but you are damned bloody proud giving your vote to PAP. Serve you right Woodlanders PAP voters.
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actually changing the tank wont help
you need to change all the pipes
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Woodland residents voted for PAP. Now they got what they voted for.Your Whole Family life just worth $10.00. Daft Singaporean.Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah.
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MY friend from the block called me to say …since drinking the contaminated water, he has been having nightmares and funny dreams.
I don’t know what to say to him.Tell Him U will going to End up in IMH very soon.
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The residents shoul SUE the Town Council for the following reasons:1)for Negligence and failure in their duty. So often these civil servants have civil servants attitude, think that they have an ‘iron’ bowl, the sit back in their work, did not do checks- u see these people wash their hands at 4.50pm and them go home on the dot at 5pm. 2)Failure to discipline the foreign workers.
3)The Town council collect so much money from you and did not ensure delivery of basic service like clean water, not to mention water u paid for the water 4) Town Council is VERY RICH.It will be foolish not to claim money from them. 5) Psychological damage. Each time you drink water for rest of your life you will remember this .6) Why they informed the residents so late? there were hours of lapse befor they inform residents. Are they trying to COVER UP? 7) Your case to sue them is VERY STRONG.
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May 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm YAHOO(Quote)
This is crazy! nThe resale price will surely drop. Nobody wants to stay there until they change the tanks.
All the Mps should resign, so that we can have a by-election. Surely this is the fault of the Mps who were only to busy celebrating their victory and neglecting their duties.
A Review committe should be conveyed and a finding should be made public.
There was a possibilty of hundreds of people dying from this incident. This just not a police case, this not just a mischief act. It could have been a new way to really kill Singaporean by throwing a dead body into water tanks, knowing very well how we trust drinking water here. At one time WKS ridicule Singaporeans for not reporting a bag left unattended in a test case, but this case they are making seems like noting. THis crazy man.
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Can you imagine turning on the tap to get water to make soup and later you found foreign pubic hairs in your soup?
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If this website wants to be looked upon as a neutral and reliable source of alternative news of Singapore, you have failed miserably.
Did you see how the water tanks are liked? You think anyone can just jump in and swim or bath? What nonsense the workers have sex with women there and then bath there!
Think you all should get your facts right before whipping the Sembawang Town Council.
Now read this article:
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_671819.html
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Hello Woodlanders, Dont be Wood. You must SUE THEM. Town Council is Very rich. They can pay you.They have to pay you.
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Hello town council please do not insult the people of woodlands by just giving them a rebate of $10 it is a biggest insult than the water contaminated tank by the bangla.
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LKY didn’t call the 60% DAFT for nothing.
Singapore is run by the Old Clown, the Wooden Clown and the Clown Prince!
They rule over a country of DAFT people!
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If a party, even after winning continues not to listen, has lost its duty an as such should not remain in office.
You are there to serve the people and not yourself and your family.
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$10 compensation!
Don’t make this pair of old balls laugh!
If I have a flat in Woodlands Blk 686B and want to sell it but because of the bad publicity and bad water and bad handling, my buyer suddenly backs out or offers a much lower price, who can I sue for my monetary loss?
Town Council or PUB?
Mr MP, please reply!
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many blocks are connected by the same water pipes and source of supply.
the contaminated water entered many blocks, bot just the one where the dead body was found.
yes, the town council is one of the riches throughout singpaore.
sue them they have lots of money.
the neighboring blocks should join in !
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The ministers get paid in miliions, and this simple security to protect the citizen can cock up! In private sector, the CEO would have take up the responsibilty, but our minister just leave it to the useless MPs and TC. Lucky this time not a terrorist act, else we will see another WKS.
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This site is already so politically skewed to start off with. And visited by a bunch of sourgrapes who keep shouting and demanding a by-election despite already losing in votes.
Although I agree it is indeed horrifying to have a irresponsible foreign worker contaminate the water tank, I feel the entire conflict and heat of the arguement actually comes from the aftermath of the General Elections.
People just want to humiliate the government. They just want to blow matters up and joke about it.
If the government were to respond and compensate EVERY SINGLE MATTER BROUGHT UP ON THIS SITE. Well, taxpayers, you’re actually just doing charity to your fellow Singaporeans instead of seeing any VISIBLE facilities or improvements to your life.
Oh wait, you ALREADY turned a blind eye to all the improvements around you. You probably don’t even know what around you is paid by the government. Gee, I think they just sprouted magically from the ground? *Gasp*
Wake up your idea, you guys lead damn sad lives if you only open your eyes in the morning and see all the problems around you. If you really want to complain about not having improvements. DON’T USE THE IMPROVEMENTS IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE A STAND.
DONT USE THE LIFTS, TAKE THE STAIRS.
DONT USE THE PARKS
JUST WALK TO WORK PROBABLY
Lead your primitive lives typing crap and jokes on sites like this to make your life worth your while, don’t even go out, really. Its such a sad world out there, listen to Temasek Review, ITS REALLY SAD.
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May 24, 2011 at 9:59 am Ridiculous(Quote)
This site is already so politically skewed to start off with. And visited by a bunch of sourgrapes who keep shouting and demanding a by-election despite already losing in votes.
Lead your primitive lives typing crap and jokes on sites like this to make your life worth your while, don’t even go out, really. Its such a sad world out there, listen to Temasek Review, ITS REALLY SAD.
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hello stupid, flats and homes in malaysia have individual tanks in flats,
they already know what a banglar will do and what a china like you will do.
is it very difficult to have water tank in each flat ?
how big, and how much water do you used a day, 1 ton, 10 gallons ?
you people talk so much but you don’t even know how much of water you used for bathing and shitting, no need to say cocking, not cooking, try cocking…..
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This is a very serious breach of security. Terrorists only need to bribe a worker to go up to the roof and put deadly chemicals such as cynanide in these water tanks, wiping out an entire block of residents.
So much for us being told to be vigilant. We are told to be vigilant so that the authorities can sleep!
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no need to talk so much at the next GE vote the pee and pee out in woodlands and then they can save all the money to pay their ministers
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Obviously you guys are helping me support my point that you guys are really just trolling around. Baseless accusation I am from China, what detective department are you from Sherlocks? I’m Singaporean for your info.
Oh really? Omg you’re serious? Is anyone getting this? So your solution for this problem is to have individual tanks in every house in a flat? Man I don’t even need to think how to retort your comment because its just hilarious thinking of a super huge water tank in my house. Would sure complement my house furnishings don’t you think?
(Btw i’m glad u later added ‘10 gallons’ cos 1 ton isnt the metric to measure water.)
“you people talk so much but you don’t even know how much of water you used for bathing and shitting, no need to say cocking, not cooking, try cocking…”
Uh sorry? So your point is saying that we should understand that we’re actually using very little water, and we can just afford a water tank in every one of our houses? And lol sorry your final insult, I assume it is, didn’t get through cos I think you didn’t manage to arrange it properly. But yeah don’t worry insult taken nevertheless.
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Oh yeah I’m sure you guys will do better at coining acronyms for another site than making sense in this site. Do consider.
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In Japan, Taro Aso is rejecting his ministeral pay until the nuclear crisis is solved.
I don’t see that happening in Singapore when:
a) Mas Selamat escaped
b) A dangerous security breach (access to our water supply) has been caused.
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In Japan, Naoto Kan (My mistake) is rejecting his ministeral pay until the nuclear crisis is solved.
I don’t see that happening in Singapore when:
a) Mas Selamat escaped
b) A dangerous security breach (access to our water supply) has been caused.
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Your comments reek of elitism and snobbishness, of which I can infer that you are just a spoilt brat who spent his miserable life in a sheltered upbringing, completely oblivious to worldly issues.
For your information, lots of singaporeans overseas expressed their support for the opposition, quite far from the stereotype “opposition” supporter you have painted in your one sided mind.
Whats wrong with kopitiams and coffee shops? Why do you have to bring them into the picture?
Pappy supporters keeping quiet? dude, have you been living under a rock (I think you have)? They have been the most vocal ones in this campaign.
You say we jump at any chance to “point fingers”. Of course we should. Afterall, the water tanks are managed by THEM. Who should take responsibility for the lax security to access the water tanks? Please argue in a sensible manner. It’s only natural that netizens express their outrage here.
One last point. You have successfully painted a “steoreotype” pappy supporter image in our minds. Elite, uncaring, selfish and oine who uses their hearts to make descisions, not their brain.
And I can safely say that your steoreotype of an opposition supporter who uses “bad” english and is “rowdy” is debunked as I know many intellectuals (overseas Singaporeans) who hold respectable credentials who supported opposition.
Good day to you.
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Over dramatizing? why don’t you talk AFTER drinking some of that contaminated water? People have been grossed out by the fact that they had drunk, cooked and fed their elderly and children with that contaminated water!
If accountability started right from the top, you think the kah-kia will be so lax and cavalier in their attitude? Highly dangerous terrorist escape also no need to account, what more to say and what more can they ask of their whole reporting line down?
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This is my first post on this Water Tank saga.
For those who are concerned, yes, you may post your comments but, isnt it best leave it to residents of Blk 686B to handle the situation themselvs ? (Plse: Bosses wld not like you wasting your time in posting and posting non-stop).
This is the testing time for Woondlands Blk 686B and its next blocks neighbours to show their “Supportiveness” in this saga,
Can they help each other in this trying time by:
extend hleping hands to those who have babies and needed clean and hot water to make milk formula, offer them hot flask of water every day,or help families who have difficulties in walking down and those elderly to get clean water by bringing water to them to their door step??
Brooding over on the condeminated water will not help instantly. so, see what you can help one another, within the same negihbourhood.
If all the the other blocks of residents all come forward, those affected can have clean water for daily consumption until the water tank is changed or problem resolved.
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It’s like telling the residents to shut up and sit down by compensating them $10 for the emotional trauma that they had sustained.
What an insult. The responsibility of the relevant authority to ensure clean drinking water for the residents seems to only worth that much, without considering the fact that someone’s lives and health would be at risk.
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Singaporeans are reasonable people.
I believe they just need some closure and assurance that such things wun happen. And the relevant authorities will come out and do the right things.
In this case, we are seeing something that is happening in civil/pubic service since a long time.
Finger pointing and Covering backsides.
Red tapes and Lots of report writing in certain font size and paragraphing.Submitting report findings to higher management, decide, meeting, reject report findings blah blah blah.
Although solutions are easy, replaced water tanks, pipes, apology letters and free health screening for the next 6 months at anytime and place. Move on and learn from mistake. Get the funding from the government, We Singaporeans do not mind because your indecision is making affected residents to suffer.
Learn from Mistakes and move on.
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Lets not use this as a platform for politicizing and fingerpoint at who’s at fault. Just Do the Right things and move on. Our thoughts are with the affected residents especially the young children and the elderly.
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who to blame ? all those who voted them, so want to scold, go scold those idiots
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Singaporean are so easily pacified?
By just changing the water tank will not give a peace of mind to the people. Will it happen again? Maybe something even more drastic if no action taken on this security negligence.
What about the property price? Those residents spend 30 years to buy their flats and now for sure no one will want to buy their flats. Not only those in 686B, those block around there will also be affected. They should have requested for free upgrading from their MP.
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aiya, only one dead body found in the security zone lah.
not so serious as the swiss man/national who was jailed for spraying grafitti on the mrt trains, lah.
let’s move on lah, as pap dr. vivian bala said.
include investigating police officer on tpl’s cooling period case, lah.
let’s move on lah, whether he investigates and charge tpl, lah or not after two weeks waiting.
after all, the pap government are trying to listen to singaporeans but still can hear, lah.
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Let us pay $10 to the contractor company to drink the “corpse water”.
Suggest to terminate their contractor and ask for compensation..cheapsake people should not be let off easily.
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Dear all, do you know what this $10 is. Pls don’t be mistaken that it is any form of compensation.
The $10 is to actually cover the need for the residents to on their tap for 10min to flush out residue “corspe” water after sanitizing the water tank.
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Not sure anyone notice what was shown on the news on them testing the tank’s water, although trivial matters.
1. The engineer weared gloves before climbing up the tank, unlock the lock and open the cover to access the water tank. My question, why the gloves? So as not to contaminate the water? If I am not wrong, dust accumulated at the ladder and all over the tank cover, wouldn’t that stick onto the gloves and soiled it? What is the point of wearing it, then?
2. Those engineers climbing up the tank, where was the safety harness. Don’t they practice what they preach…. safety?
On a personal note. Will they be replacing the tank of the same design built with similar type of materials? Or are they replacing with a cheaper option, like those squared water tanks of old. Hope it is not the cheaper option. The MP should be one who ensure that the people there don’t get a disadvantage deal.
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