Singapore: From waterless wilderness to billionaires’ paradise, the tiny island that’s now among the world’s richest

Gemma Iso
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 06:44:33 +0000
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In the 1960s, Singapore was a nation in crisis — plagued by water shortages, sewage pollution, flooding, and political divisiveness. The country was also grappling with an illiterate electorate and the challenges of a newly independent state, freshly separated from Malaysia and only two decades removed from British colonial rule. These daunting obstacles posed a …