Singapore environment agency (NEA) website down as haze gets worse

Techgoondu, 22 Oct 2010

Just as the haze is getting more serious – into unhealthy levels – in Singapore, the government agency responsible for monitoring the situation here is finding its website in just as bad shape and unable to cope with the demand for weather information from the public.
Inexplicably, the main National Environment Agency (NEA) website has been going up and down in the past two days. When it’s down, it simply reports “Service Unavailable” when you go looking for the latest PSI (Pollutant Standard Index) reading.
But it begs the question: how reliable are important government services when you need them? Full story