Why do they have to deliver sewage this way?

I can never forget this, not only have I read about it several times but the folks here are always joking about it - The long queues of tankers carrying untreated sewage, so long that a driver has to wait eight hours for his turn to discharge his load. One of my greatest fears here is to encounter one of these on the road, probably in an accident, spilling its unwelcomed contents. You cannot anticipate the ways these things can fly out. This is not an academic risk. Look at how many there are.

By chance, we happened to spot the sewerage treatment plant in the distance on our way back from Dragon Mart this afternoon. We made a detour and took some photos. You can see the queue snake so far back, you can't see the end of it.


Past the unguarded entrance (risky isn't it?), these tankers circled upwards to the not visible discharge point. One of our Singaporean friend often remarked that you must visit in the night. The place look like a scene from the movie, The Close Encounter of the Third Kind, with the tankers lighted up against the deep darkness, welcoming Aliens visiting earth. The truth is more like they are trying to return something to the earth!