PUB should not have used word 'ponding': Balakrishnan

The PUB should not have used the term "ponding", said Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan in Parliament yesterday.

He said: "As far as I am concerned, PUB should not have used the word 'ponding'. I call a spade a spade. A flood is a flood."

Dr Balakrishnan, who was responding to Workers' Party MP Yaw Shin Leong's question on the difference between flash floods and ponding, added: "As long as there is water accumulating somewhere where it's not supposed to be, as long as it has implications on human safety or business operations, that is a flood, that is a problem that needs to be resolved. PUB and building owners must resolve it."

After rain pelted Orchard Road on Dec 23, the PUB had said: "There was no flooding at Orchard Road. However, water ponded at the open area of Liat Towers, the underpass between Lucky Plaza and Ngee Ann City and the basement of Lucky Plaza due to the sustained heavy downpour."

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