Hong Kong’s Pricey Water Deal With China
China Water Risk: Subtropical, rainy Hong Kong seems blessed with water but, as Civic Exchange shows, this is an “illusion of plenty”.
Running Dry: Hong Kong in Need of Sustainable Water Strategy
Harbour Times: For a compact urban jungle, Hong Kong uses a shocking amount of freshwater resources.
Hong Kong Needs a Sense of Urgency to Tackle Water Scarcity
South China Morning Post: The easy supply of water from the mainland and low water tariffs have lulled Hongkongers into a false sense of security, unaware of the mounting pressure on water supplies in many parts of the world, including the Pearl River Delta.
Why Hong Kong Urgently Needs to Tackle Its Water Problem
Hong Kong Free Press: It is actually an illusion that fresh drinking water is an unlimited natural resource in the city.
Security at Stake
South China Morning Post: Chau Sai-wai, assistant director of water supplies in the Hong Kong government, writes an opinion piece in response to Civic Exchange’s report “The Illusion of Plenty: Hong Kong’s Water Security – Working towards Regional Water Harmony”.
Hong Kong Pours Out 5.5 Billion Bathtubs of Water a Year and It ‘Needs a Plan to Reduce Waste’
South China Morning Post: The city relies on the Dongjiang in mainland China for 80% of its water, with a price that has progressively increased in last decade, currently paying HK$4.22 billion a year regardless of how much gets used.
穩定的香港水資源
信報：思匯政策報告強調，人口增長和氣候變化將加劇全球用水緊張，並對本地水資源短缺及其穩定性表示關注。
Hong Kong Is Wasting a Third of Its Water
China Dialogue: Despite being one of the world’s richest cities, its annual loss of water from leakage and theft is a whopping 32.5% of total production — such losses are avoidable, however.
The Illusion of Plenty
In “Hong Kong’s Water Security, Working Towards Regional Water Harmony,” Civic Exchange and ADMCF address freshwater supply. (In English and Chinese)
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Written Comment to the Environment Bureau: Views on How Hong Kong Should Combat Climate Change
Civic Exchange submitted a written comment to support the SAR Government to roll out long-term action plan for post-2020 to cope with threats and consequences brought by the remarkably changing climate.
