Singapores Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong shakes hands with Communist Party of Vietnams General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as they meet at the partys headquarters in Hanoi, Vietnam March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Hoang Dinh Nam/Pool
Singapore: The water price hike is necessary to bring home the scarcity of water but more time could have been spent explaining the price increase before it was announced, so that people would not have been so surprised, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
But the increase is unavoidable, with water a strategic resource in Singapore, he added.
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