Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources

The Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (Abbreviation: MEWR; ; Chinese: ; ) formerly the Ministry of the Environment (ENV), is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for providing a quality living environment and a high standard of public health, protected against the spread of communicable diseases. It was set up in 1972, and today, together with its two statutory boards – the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Public Utilities Board – the Ministry’s area of responsibility has widened to include ensuring a clean and hygienic living environment, as well as managing the complete water cycle – from sourcing, collection, purification and supply of drinking water; to the treatment of used water and recycling into NEWater; desalination; as well as storm water drainage. Since 1 April 2019, a new statutory board Singapore Food Agency (SFA) was formed to amalgamate the functions of three stat boards, Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA), National Environment Agency (NEA) and Health Sciences Authority (HSA) to handle food issues from farm-to-fork. A National Centre for Food Science was established to consolidate the food laboratory capabilities of the three agencies.

See also 
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources
National Environment Agency
Organisations of the Singapore Government
President's Award for the Environment
Public Utilities Board
Singapore Food Agency
Statutory boards of the Singapore Government

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External links 

Official Facebook page

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Category:1972 establishments in Singapore
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