Was Tan Chuan Jin's budget speech on reasons for floods misleading?

[Confuseous]

Minister Tan Chuan Jin, former Senior Minister of State for National Development, had denied this association of increased flood risk with urbanisation in Parliament during his budget speech this year. He pointed out that according to the expert panel which came up with the report published in January 2012, it did not say that large scale rapid urbanisation is the key contributor to the recent increase in flooding in Singapore. Instead, it said urbanization has led to an increase in storm water run-off which is what needs to be addressed. This is similar to what Dr Balakrishnan said in his comment after yesterday’s flood.

However, the report, titled, “Report on Key Conclusions and Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Drainage Design and Flood Protection Measures” , also said:

- http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/09/a-simple-solution-of-more-drains-for-less-floods

 

[Devil Within]

A big part of the reason why we are having so many floods recently is because of this...

No amount of excuses can clear the fact that this is one big factor.