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Affects on the Environment

Method Used

*Ruining Habitats

*Sand reaching the seabeds

*Extinction of many sea animals and organisms

* Disrupts in the food chain

Landfill: Throwing heavy rocks and cement into the waters to lay out a steady and stable base for further construction in the future.

What is Land Reclamation?

Facts

*Singapore imports more than 14.6 million tons of sand each year

*1960: land area was 670 square km

*2017: land area is 709 square km

*Expanding land deeper into the water to increase the land area.

*This results in an increase of the number of properties and population within the area.

Population Growth

*1960: population density was 2,985 per square km

*2017: population density was 8,264 per square km

*More commercial, residential, industrial and governmental properties

Land Reclamation in Singapore

by Roseveer Dhami 8A

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