can be piped off to its wide range of applications (e.g. reuse in industry, discharge to a drinking water reservoir). NEWater now makes up around 30% of Singapore's total use, by 2060 Singapore's National Water Agency plans to triple the current NEWater capacity as to meet 50% of Singapore's future water demand. Most of the NEWater is used by industries for non-potable uses such as wafer fabrication. The rest is fed into nearby reservoirs. As of 2019, according to PUB, NEWater was able to meet 40% of Singapore's water requirements. The high purity of the water has actually allowed industries to reduce their costs. With the construction of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System the decentralized water reclamation plants and NEWater factories are expected to be gradually closed and replaced by the single, much larger water reclamation plant and NEWater factory at Changi at the Eastern end of Singapore Island. The Bedok reclamation plant was the first one to be decommissioned in 2009, followed by the Seletar plant in 2011. The Bedok NEWater plant, however, continued to operate, while the Seletar NEWater plant was decommissioned along with the reclamation plant. The Kranji, Ulu Pandan and Bedok reclamation plants had been upgraded in 1999-2001, making them more compact so that they needed less land and covering them for odor control in order to make nearby land more valuable. Desalinated seawater On 13 September 2005, the country opened its first desalination plant, SingSpring Desalination Plant, in Tuas at the southwestern tip of Singapore Island. The S$200 million plant, built and operated by Hyflux, can produce of water each day and meets 10% of the country's water needs. In 2007, the Sungei Tampines was established as a test project for future large-scale desalination projects. This project would influence further desalination projects in the country, as the reliability of the dual-purpose desalination concept was tested on a smaller scale. That facility, which also draws freshwater and seawater from surrounding sources, is able to produce around one million gallons a day. The bid to build and operate Singapore's second and largest desalination plant, Tuaspring Desalination Plant (since renamed Tuas South Desalination Plant), with a capacity of per day, also located at Tuas, was launched in June 2010. Hyflux won the contract in April 2011, and the plant began operations two years later in 2013. In May 2019, following financial losses from the plant, PUB took over