Singapore to employ mix of coastal protection measures to guard against sea-level rise: experts

About 70 per cent of Singapore's coastline is currently guarded by hard structures, including sea walls and stone embankments. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): To hold back rising sea levels and prevent flooding episodes in low-lying Singapore, the country will need to incorporate a mix of hard engineering solutions and soft armouring, tapping natural coastal barriers, for example.

Speaking at The Straits Times webinar on sea-level rise on Wednesday (April 21), Ms Hazel Khoo, director of the coastal protection department at national water agency PUB, said the country is looking at regional coastal barriers such as nature-based solutions, and methods to weaken wave energy, to tackle the threat of coastal erosion.