💧 Water — how much water does Singapore sell, and at what listed price?

Latest observations

Annual ledger

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "Volumes sold, Singapore (million cubic metres per year; newest first, last 12 years). "b…"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "Listed water prices, Singapore (S$ per cubic metre excluding GST; newest first, last 12…"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Volumes in million cubic metres per year; prices in Singapore dollars per cubic metre excluding GST, as listed (headline rows only; tariff components are not reproduced). "na" in the source is shown as not published; a year before the first year of a dataset is shown as outside dataset range. The latest published year differs by series (volumes and listed prices) and is shown for each. Machine-readable: /sg/api/water_sg.json.

Why this chapter shows "observing", not a judgment

• No frozen criterion exists for judging Singapore's water conditions as good or bad. Volumes sold and listed prices are facts as published; they are not a measure of scarcity, and no threshold is inferred.
• Annual series only: this chapter cannot show what happened this month or this week. The frequency is stated on every figure and on the health page.
• Role in this edition: main chapter. The monthly electricity series is shown for reference (publication lag of about five months); the EMA half-hourly demand file is not connected.
• What this chapter can say: how much potable water and NEWater Singapore sold in each published year (national totals in million cubic metres; domestic and non-domestic potable water as published by PUB); the listed water prices per cubic metre excluding GST for domestic users (first 40 cubic metres), non-domestic users and NEWater, in the year they applied; which year is the latest published and when each value was retrieved.
• What this chapter cannot say: what happened this month or this week (all series are annual; no daily, weekly or monthly water series with verified terms exists for Singapore); reservoir levels, the Four National Taps supply mix or the water use of any data centre (not published as datasets; not estimated); whether water is scarce or a price is high or low (no criterion is frozen; volumes sold and listed prices are facts as published).

Definition (v1.0 draft)

• Volumes: Sales of potable water (total; SingStat "Water Sales, Annual", source MSE / PUB), potable water sold by domestic and non-domestic users (PUB "Volume of Potable Water sold, Annual"), NEWater sold (PUB "Volume of NEWater sold, Annual"); million cubic metres per calendar year, as published. The total and the domestic / non-domestic split come from two datasets and are both reproduced as published; this site does not add them up. Sources adopted: the total from the SingStat table, the split and NEWater from the PUB datasets. The SingStat table also carries breakdown rows which differ from the PUB datasets by up to 0.2 million cubic metres in some years (checked 2026-10-02: Non-Domestic Use 2022–2024 by 0.1–0.2, Sales Of Newater 2024 by 0.1); the two sources are not mixed.
• Prices: listed potable water price for domestic users (first 40 cubic metres), for non-domestic users, and the NEWater price (SingStat "Water Prices, Annual", source MSE / PUB), S$ per cubic metre excluding GST, headline rows only. A change appears in the year the tariff is revised.
• Values: as published; "na" is recorded as not published (missing, not zero). Refetched daily; a revised year overwrites the previous value and the revision is recorded in the change ledger. Years ending before the observation start are labeled retrieved retrospectively.
• Not available (not estimated): reservoir levels, the Four National Taps supply mix, data-centre water use (none is published as a dataset; checked 2026-09-15).

Sources and terms

• Singapore Department of Statistics, Water Sales, Annual and Water Prices, Annual (source: Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment / PUB); PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, Volume of Potable Water sold, Annual and Volume of NEWater sold, Annual — all via data.gov.sg under the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0. Required notice: Contains information from Water Sales, Annual; Volume of Potable Water sold, Annual; Volume of NEWater sold, Annual; Water Prices, Annual accessed on 2026-10-03 from data.gov.sg which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0. Compiled by AI Lifeline; not an official statistic; no endorsement implied.