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At the opening of the 'Keep Singapore Pollution Free' Campaign 1971, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew delivers his address in Malay, English and Hokkien. In his speech in English, he notes that everyone must share the responsibility to keep the environment clean and healthy.
While the government will provide an efficient administrative machinery to help promote a clean environment, the people have to maintain high standards of conduct to achieve this. Over the next few years, there are plans to get our rivers, streams and canals pollution free. Water polluted by domestic or industrial use will not be allowed to go into open drains. Factories have been given notice to comply with the anti-pollution requirements. The Prime Minister also touches on increasing Singapore's water resources by not contaminating rain water and cleaning up our rivers, streams and canals. This anti-pollution programme will attract fish, prawns and marine life to return to the rivers and canals. Schoolchildren will be taught not to despoil common user areas like corridors, lifts or parks. Clan associations, residents' associations, community centres and citizens' consultative committees will reach out to adults. Non-citizens working in Singapore will also be inducted into this way of life. The mass media has a role to play in this. As it is easy to slip back into bad habits, campaigns will be held from time to time to remind everyone not to slacken in their efforts to keep Singapore clean and green.