Clean Singapore

I have never seen something like this in my life. Whenever it rains, these guys take this special machine to dry the area in front of the office. It is just funny… There are 30 degrees Celsius outside and anyway the whole area would be dry in max half an hour…. It seems that cheap labor can make people to think of crazy things…

Another shocking thing in Singapore is that they wash the pavements quite regularly with high pressure water and the bigger shopping malls would wash the pavement in front of the mall with some special liquid. Well, it rains quite a lot in Singapore as it is a tropical island, so I have no clue why is there a need for washing the pavement. It is true that there is no dust on the street… but still, there is too much of wasting energy and precious water…. Singapore is clean and looks like a clinic or hospital and I really like that. However I wonder whether they will be able to maintain this huge work force cleaning the whole city when the wages will rise even more here… Because by default people tend to litter here as well (sometimes as much as back home) and now it is clean mainly because of the huge cleaning bonanza that is happening here 24/7. Or they think that there always be foreign workers from the 1 billion poor people of Asia that will do it for few bucks, even if the anti-littering education campaigns fail?