The document outlines the itinerary for a visit by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to Singapore from October 18-20, 2011. On the first day, the group will tour the Singapore Deltares Water Alliance facilities and research centers. The second day includes meetings with Singapore's Public Utilities Board, Environmental Water Industry office, and visits to water infrastructure projects. The third day consists of a boat tour of water treatment facilities and islands with the National Environment Agency. The document provides details on the history, funding, and research programs of the Singapore Deltares Water Alliance.

1. Welcome
Baton
Rouge
Area
Founda3on
Singapore,
October
18,
19
and
20,
2011

2. BRAF
Visit
Programme,
October
18-­‐20
• Today,
October
18
– Morning
in
SDWA
• General
Introduc3on,
some
science
– Lunch
– AKernoon
in
SDWA’s
Aqua3c
Science
Centre
at
Sungei
Ulu
Pandan
• Research
and
specialist
consultancy
• Light
refreshments
– Evening:
free
2

3. BRAF
Visit
Programme,
October
18-­‐20
• Tomorrow,
October
19
– Morning
with
EWI
and
PUB
• Public
U3li3es
Board
• EWI
funding
schemes
• Courtesy
Call
on
PUB
Chief
Execu3ve
– Lunch
– AKernoon
• Marina
Barrage
• Punggol-­‐Serangoon
– Evening:
dinner
at
Sentosa
3

4. BRAF
Visit
Programme,
October
18-­‐20
• Thursday,
October
20
– Morning
with
Na3onal
Environment
Agency
• Boat
trip
to
Semakau
and
St.
John’s
Island
(Tropical
Marine
Science
Ins3tute)
– Boxed
Lunch
– Evening:
dinner
by
Singapore
River
4

5. SINGAPORE
DELFT
WATER
ALLIANCE

6. Singapore Delft Water Alliance

7. BACKGROUND
SDWA started in February 2007
PUB EWI
Deltares
NUS

8. HISTORY
• Following Delft Hydraulics advisory work on Marina Lake (2005), an idea
developed (in May 2006) to establish joint research centre
• In June 2006, task force established to develop research agenda and
request for funding
• In late December 2006, Environmental Water Industry Development Council
(EWI) grants S$ 24 million to National University of Singapore (NUS) to
establish Singapore Delft Water Alliance
• SDWA inaugurated on February 23, with official start of activities on April 1,
2007
• SDWA is 5 year programme, with key intention to evolve self-funded
institute during the perion

9. FINANCIALS
• EWI provides S$ 24 million NUS, EWI, 24
14.8
• Deltares S$ 18.7 million (in kind)
• PUB S$ 6 million
• NUS S$ 14.8 million (in kind)
• Grand Total = S$ 63.5 million
Deltares, PUB, 6
18.7

10. GRANT
REIMBURSEMENT
MECHANICS
Grant is made available on EWI (40%)
SDWA
Partners (60%)
reimbursement principles
For every S$ 6 by partners NUS S$
EWI provides additional S$ 4 14.8m
Grant is available only “up to” PUB S$ 6m
S$ 24 m
S$ 24m Deltares S$
Most of grant is dedicated to 18.7m
locally executed research
(people and expenditures)

11. SDWA
Input
for
Research
Projects
Un:l
30
Jun
2011
$25,000,000
SDWA
Overall
Programme
$20,000,000
Deltares
$15,000,000
NUS
EWI
funding
Cum
Deltares
$10,000,000
Cum
NUS
Cum
PUB
$5,000,000
$0
NUS
Deltares
PUB
Total
Commi3ed
Input
(:ll
31
Mar
2012)
13,377,768
21,334,674
5,949,873
40,662,315
Actual
Input
(NUS
:ll
30
Jun
2011,
DelK
:ll
31
Mar
2011)
9,313,302
19,297,962
4,740,000
33,351,263
(69.6%)
(90.5%)
(79.7%)
(82.02%)

12. REIMBURSEMENTS,
MORE
DETAILS
• Deltares contributes S$ 18.7 million (in kind)
– S$ 1 million in value of software
– S$ 17.7 million in terms of manpower
• S$ 17.7 million generates S$ 11.8 million of EWI funds
– 1/3rd of S$ 11.8m = S$ 3.93m back to Deltares for additional research
– 2/3rds of S$ 11.8 = S$ 7.87m to SDWA to fund local research (EOM+ OOE)
– S$ 1 m software reimbursed in terms of maintenance fee (S$ 0.6 m)
• NUS S$ 14.8m generates S$ 9.87 million of EWI funds, entirely goes to
SDWA (EOM+ OOE)
• PUB S$ 6m generates S$ 4 million of EWI funds, entirely goes to SDWA
(EOM+ OOE)

13. REAL
GRANT
BENEFICIARIES
• Deltares S$ 4.53 m (S$ 3.93 m + software maintenance)
• SDWA S$ 19.47 m
In reality, most of EWI grant is de facto
investment in establishment of research team,
which should be able to continue operating on
self-funded principles after SDWA research
programme is over

14. SDWA
RESEARCH
PROGRAMME
Singapore Delft Water
Alliance
S$ 54 + 10 million
[12 postdocs]
[24 PhD Students]
Integrated
ASC Pandan ASC Upper Peirce Reservoirs Peatland MH Box
S$ 7.57 + S$ 5.15 million S$ 3.75 + S$ 2.43 million
S$ 5.56 + S$ 3.16 million
S$ 2.83 + S$ 1.89 million S$ 4.82 + S$ 3.21 million Marine
4 Postdocs 4 Postdocs
2 Postdocs
3 Postdocs 4 Postdocs Programmes
8 PhD 4 PhD 2 PhD 2 PhD
5 PhD
Corals &
Abiotic Seagrasses Mangroves
S$ 2.0 + S$ 1.33 million S$ 3.12 +S$ 2.08 million
S$ 1.27 + S$ 0.85 million
1 Postdocs 1 Postdocs
- Postdocs
2 PhD 3 PhD
2 PhD
Freshwater
Programme
Peatland
Saltwater
Programme

15. ALLOCATION OF SDWA FUNDS
Central
Saltwater 13%
28% Education
10%
Peatland
7%
Freshwater
42%

16. 6% Admin Support
5%
Management
Marine 2%
15%
Software
4%
MH Box Education
12% 10%
Peatland Upper Pierce
7% 9%
Adap.Multi.Res.
12% Pandan ASC
18%

17. GOVERNANCE
• Board of Trustees (3 members)
• Management Board (4 members)
• Director
• Principal Investigators (2 per project)
• Project Teams

18. LEGAL
STRUCTURE
• EWI grant awarded to the National University of Singapore, making NUS
solely responsible (including claw-back) and grant manager
• To regulate alliance NUS, PUB and Deltares developed
– Master Research Project Agreement (MRPA)
– Financial Rules Agreement
• MRPA provides backbone for conducting research projects, IP ownership,
rights and obligations, unfulfilled and “default” situations
• Individual project agreements are executed under MRPA
– light (3-4 pages) spelling out project-related specifics: duration, exchange rate,
KPIs
• FRA outlines reimbursement principles and flow of money

19. EXCITING
GROWTH
35 33
32
30
30 28
24
25
Plus:
20
19
• 18 Research Engineers 20 18
16 16 Admin Staff
• 7 Senior Researchers/Visiting Professors 14
15 Post Doctorals
• 21 Academic Staff at NUS from 16 11 PhD Students
10
department and RICs 9 9.4 71 Researchers
10 8 8.2
7 7 7 7 Admin support
• 19 Researchers/Engineers in Deltares 5
6 6
4
5
• Developing/finalising 2 senior 2 2
1
appointments through NUS and EWI000
0
VPP Jan - Jul - Jan - Jul - Jan - Jul - Jan - Jul - Jan - Jul -
Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec
2007 2007 2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011

20. “PYRAMID
OF
SKILLS”

21. EDUCATIONAL
INTIATIVES
• Double M.Sc. Degree with TU Delft

22. SDWA
DELIVERS
Details Year 3 Year 5 Year 7 Total Achieved
S/N (for that year) (FY 2009) (FY 2011) (FY 2013) (As of 30 June 2011)
1 Postdoctoral (for the year) 11 13 15 20
2 PhD (research & intake) 25 25 20 33
3 * Masters (research & intake) 80 40 80 26
No. of papers submitted for publishing/
4 80 180 260 173
Patents generated
No. of Joint Projects with other research
5 1 5 7 6
centres
No. of Executives trained from executive
6 150 250 350 392
programs
7 No. of Executives Programs conducted 7 10 15 13
8 * No. of Joint R&D Projects with companies 1 5 10 13
9 * Incremental external funding generated $1m $7m $16m * S$12,563,191
10 No. of SDWA events 46
11 No. of SDWA Weekly Research Team meeting 133

23. SDWA External Funding Generated
A) Completed Projects ($738k)
1) BCA course ($43,506) Year 3 KPI Year 5 KPI Year 7 KPI
(FY 2009) (FY 2011) (FY 2013)
2) HDB course ($28,622)
3) HDB: Delft 3D course ($26,750) $ 1 million $ 7 million $16 million
4) HDB : Punggol Waterway ($52,965)
5) NEA-Jambi ($481,500)
6) JTC: Water Energy Nexus + VO ($96,247)
7) ERM Jurong Outfall Study ($8,827)
B) Projects in progress ($11.8M)
1) PUB: Punggol-Serangoon ($3,315,930)
2) NParks / CUGE: Plant Selection Study ($276,168)
3) NParks / CUGE: Water Quality Monitoring ($177,179)
4) Flinders: Modifying & Improving Porous Sol-Gel Materials for Water Purification ($1,476,028)
5) JSMP: IDS Phase 1 ($2,310,000)
6) EcoShape: Service Support for Building with Nature ($64,200)
7) Aqleo: Support for Hydroinformatics ($60,000)
8) Nparks / CUGE East Coast Park Pond Study ($396,711)
10) Nparks / CUGE Ecological Guidelines ($144,594)
11) PUB / Marina Barrage Sea Water Intrusion $(80,000)
12) NEA / Project Neptune $ (3,500,000)

24. Projects
under
in
the
pipeline
(~$30m)
1)
ADB
Climate
Adapta3on
Course
All good news, but
2)
BCA
Climate
Adapta3on
Study
($5.0m)
3)
CREATE
Megaci3es
($
350
k)
4)
EWI
Visi3ng
Professor
Scheme
5)
HDB
Polder
Studies
($6.0M)
manpower capacity
6)
JTC
Treatment
of
contaminated
marine
spoil
($300K)
7)
JTC
Value
Added
Infrastructure
and
Porous
Pavements
(S$
1.2
m)
8)
JTC
Soil
Strengthening
Studies
($1.0M)
10)
CUGE
Marina
Bay,
Gardens
on
the
Bay
(S$
125k)
-­‐
awarded
and
11)
PUB
Bioremedia3on
Study
12)
PUB
Lorong
Halus
Floa3ng
Island
13)
PUB
Lake
Restora3on
Studies
14)
PUB
Modeling
of
Salinity
Intrusion
in
the
Johor
River
QAQC
15)
PUBC
Teaming
on
water
management
studies
in
the
region
16)
Thai
MNR&E
Capacity
Building
17)
NCCS
Singapore
Agencies
–
course
on
Climate
Adapta3on
18)
PUB-­‐HDB
Punggol
ABC
Development
for
HDB
)
(S$
60
k)
-­‐
awarded
19)
SCELSE
Microbial
Ecology
(S$
300
k)
)
-­‐
awarded
are main concern
20)
NCCS
/
Planet
Urgence
–
REDD+
and
Wetlands
21)
NPARKS
/
Emerging
Contaminents
and
Mangroves
($200K)
22)
NEA
/
Heavy
Metal
Monitoring
at
P.Semakau
($250K)
23)
NEA
/
Dispersion
of
mangrove
Propagules
($150K)

25. MEDIA
ATTENTION

26. SOME
VISITORS

27. AQUATIC
SCIENCE
CENTRE
@
SUNGEI
ULU
PANDAN
Some of our activities extend beyond boundaries of traditional research

29. Singapore-Netherlands Water Challenge
► Enabling Open Innovation
► Inspiring Young Talent
► Promoting Sustainable Solutions
Programme Partners:
Award Sponsors:

30. MARCH 31, 2012
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31. BACKDROP
FOR
SDWA
FUTURE
• Research Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC) announced S$ 16.1
billion investment in R&D for 2011-2015 period
• Emphasis on R&D conducted in close cooperation with the industry (70% of
the funds)
• Multi-disciplinary projects will be given priority
• Commercialization of technology, application and export of knowledge
• Attracting talent, nationally and internationally
• Specifically for Water Sector: growth of water sector to S$ 1.7 billion (0.6%
of GDP) and 11,000 jobs by 2015

32. SDWA
V2.0
JV functions as a vehicle enabling
assembly of fit-for-purpose teams
composed of NUS and Deltares
staff

33. “Joint Venture”
— JV is envisaged as ‘light’ entity with less than 5 employees
— Managed by Director & Governed by 3-person Management Board
(Deltares; NUS and Independent Director). Board governs on principles
of unanimity
— JV is contracting vehicle & risk management structure
— JV fulfills number of Business Development objectives & supports user
inspired R&D function
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34. NUS (RIC?) NUS
- provide people
- execute tasks shareholder
B A
PROJECT-
CONSORTIUM C JOINT VENTURE D CLIENT
NUS+DELTARES
B A
DELTARES (BO?) DELTARES
- provide people
- execute tasks shareholder
CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS:
A: JV CONTRACT IN WHICH SHAREHOLDERS AGREE HOW TO ENABLE AND CONTROL THE JV
B: CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT IN WHICH NUS AND DELTARES AGREE HOW TO EXECUTE PROJECTS FOR THE JV
C: MASTER AGREEMENT + WORKORDERS BETWEEEN JV AND NUS/DELTARES WHICH SET THE CONDITIONS FOR SUBCONTRACTING THE NUS/DELTARES CONSORTIUM BY THE JV
D: GENERAL CONDITIONS TO BE USED FOR JV-CONTRACTS WITH CLIENTS

36. Opportunities and Risks
— Risks:
◦ The availability of people as key resource;
◦ The ability to retain talented people;
◦ The ability to sustain commitment of parent organisations;
◦ The ability to diversify range of services;
◦ The ability to diversify client base;
— Success:
◦ The push of water knowledge into industry and the community;
◦ Mobilizing capability to address large-scale interdisciplinary water problems;
◦ Penetration and integration in the Region;
◦ Success of the JV measured by Parent organisations;
◦ Success measured by key stakeholders and clients.
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37. EVOLVING
RESEARCH
AGENDA
• Societal questions are
interdisciplinary
• SDWA v2.0 is means for
remaining relevant while reaching
out to public and private contract
research market
• Real-world problems feed into
fundamental research agenda
• Stakeholders appreciate such
convenient access to applied
research and have endorsed the
idea
• Reaching out into the region

42. And now some science…
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