Climate resilience requires not only efforts in mitigation and adaptation by the government but also the community at large. To raise public awareness about water conservation, the Water Supplies Department (WSD) has been promoting various initiatives over the years. These include running the "Cherish Water Campus" Integrated Education Programme (IEP), encouraging public participation in water conservation campaigns, running a Water Resources Education Centre (H2OPE Centre) at Tin Shui Wai, distributing or installing flow controllers for water taps and/or showers for the domestic consumers, and promoting the "Water Efficiency Labeling Scheme" to help customers to select highly-efficient water saving devices and appliances, etc. Besides, WSD has developed best practice guidelines for water usage in the catering and hotel industries and promoted the guidelines to the industries through relevant associations. WSD also organised the Enterprises Cherish Water Campaign (ECH2O), providing a collaboration platform for commercial and industrial sectors to cherish water together through different initiatives including signing of charter, appointment of cherishing water manager, recognition programmes.
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