NEWater Plant Trip

It is a memorable and educational day today. My hospital, CGH, is conducting a trip to one of the NEWater Plant which is in Bedok. This trip is organized in conjunction with the Green & Clean Week in CGH. It was a last minute arrangement that I made. I decided to visit this plant just 1 day prior to the trip day. I called & managed to change shift with 1 of my colleague, agreed by my Nurse Manager.
There were 5 of us; Sister Aishah, Mommy Tong, Lu Yuan, Farhana & Me. We're getting ready by 3pm & went to the waiting bus, beside the A&E department. We're the first to reach & waited the rest in the bus. At 3.30pm, the bus we're on started the journey & we reached within 10 minutes later.
NEWater is 1 of the Singapore National Taps which has 4 plants. The other 3 plants are in Kranji, Ulu Pandan & Seletar. The other 3 National Taps are Local Catchment Water, Imported Water & Desalinated Water. All these National Taps has their own plants scattered around in Singapore.
The trip in the plant started at 4pm. We're invited into an auditorium where we were sitted to watch and understand abt Singapore's search for alternative sources of water & discover how PUB makes use of advanced technology to produce NEWater. After that, we're ushered into WaterWise Arcade to learn more abt water with a few interactive stations. What impressed me was that this arcade has a raft which we can sit on to experience the ride down Singapore's beautiful & clean water. It is a simulation ride with a screen where we can see the water & some building along the ride. You can feel the raft is moving up & down the stream.
What I like most is the NEWater factory experience where we were shown to how the NEWater is produced in 3 key steps; Ultrafiltration, Reverse Osmosis & Ultraviolet Filtration (water is pass through ultraviolet less than a second to kill the remaining micro bacteria). The final steps in the production is Conditioning where the pH of the water is adjusted. During the trip, we were given 1 bottle of NEWater to try out.
Finally, we're thanked for the visiting and shown the exit way to a beautiful garden with pond filled with 'Li Yu' fish. And each of us were given an apple!!!
Heh!!! This trip reminded me to the school time when my school made visiting trip to some factories for education purpose...... :-p