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After more than a year of visits to shopping malls and housing estates throughout Hong Kong, the “Save Water • Cherish the World” roving exhibitions aimed at strengthening public awareness of water conservation successfully accomplished their mission as the last exhibition was held at the end of May 2014.
The “Let’s Save 10 Litres Water” Campaign got underway in March 2014 marked by an official launch ceremony held on 17th May 2014 at the Piazza of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui to help kick the programme into high gear. This important Campaign aims to encourage the public to implement water-saving practices and monitor their own water-saving performance by signing a “Water Conservation Declaration”. Each participating household is then entitled to receive a pair of complimentary flow controllers to help conserve water. The Campaign has received an overwhelming response from the public with complimentary flow controllers having been delivered to over 130,000 participating households by the end of March 2015.
The “Cherish Water Resources” Waterworks Installations Drawing Competition encourages the public to express through their individual creativity and imagination the concept of “Cherish Water Resources”. They do this by using Hong Kong‘s waterworks installations as the main creative element to promote water conservation by visual artistic means. The aim of the competition is to enhance the public’s understanding of Hong Kong’s waterworks installations and remind them to cherish these facilities as well as the water resources we use. There was a great deal of positive feedback as nearly 900 entries were received from the Open Category and Secondary School Category. An award presentation ceremony as well as an exhibition featuring 53 winning entries were held in June 2014 at Youth Square in Chai Wan. Roving exhibitions to display some of the selected entries were also held at various districts from June to September 2014.
The “Water Conservation Ambassadors Selection Scheme” is the highlight of the “Water Conservation Starts from Home” promotional campaign. This scheme encourages youngsters to cherish water resources and educates them on reminding their classmates, family members and friends to participate in water conservation. The ambassadors are selected based on their achievement in conservation evaluated using the data submitted by the students, viz the number of household members and their domestic water consumption. Over 4,500 students from 35 primary schools have participated in this year’s scheme. The “Certificate Presentation Ceremony for Water Conservation Ambassadors” was held in July 2014 at Youth Square, Chai Wan and 523 certificates were awarded in the event. Since the launching of the scheme in 2009, the WSD has awarded a total of nearly 2,800 certificates to students up to date.
The certificate presentation ceremony for the Quality Water Recognition Scheme for Buildings (QWRSB) and Flushing Water Plumbing Quality Maintenance Recognition Scheme (FWPQMRS) was held in August 2014 to recognise the efforts of property owners, owners’ corporations, property management companies, and other related entities concerning proper maintenance of their fresh water and flushing water plumbing systems. By the end of July 2014, 3,888 certificates had been issued under the QWRSB and nearly 1,000 certificates had been issued under the FWPQMRS.
To enhance communications with members of the public, a water supplies seminar is held annually to exchange views and ideas on water quality and water supply services. This year’s gathering focused on the “WSD Mobile App”, “Flushing Water Plumbing Quality Maintenance Recognition Scheme & Maintenance and Repair of Inside Service”, and “Voluntary Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme on Flow Controllers”.
The WSD took part in ECO Expo Asia 2014, the international trade fair on green technologies hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and co-organised by the Environment Bureau. At this event, the WSD promoted its Voluntary Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (WELS) to businesses, public institutions and non-governmental organisations. More than a thousand visitors attended the 4-day trade fair.
Members of the ACRQWS visited Guangdong to inspect the Dongjiang water supply system and noted that the Guangdong authorities have continued to introduce measures to adequately safeguard the Dongjiang water supply and keep it free from contamination.
Over 200 staff and their families participated in the 2-day annual outing in Dongguan, during November.
Hotels and catering are two industries conspicuous for their high water consumption. For this reason the WSD fully supported the Advisory Committee on Water Resources and Quality of Water Supplies (ACRQWS) in organising a discussion forum for these two particular sectors in order to provide a platform for industry practitioners to share their experiences and explore current best practices with respect to water usage management, water-saving measures, water- saving system design and technology and other issues to help promote a mindset of water conservation.
In order to spread the message about the indispensable relationship between water conservation and environmental protection, the “Simplified e-Bill Service cum World Water Monitoring Challenge” was held at the Ma On Shan Water Treatment Works. Enhancing the e-Bill Service to promote reduction of paper consumption minimises water and electricity consumption as well as waste water generated during the process of paper production.
The World Water Monitoring Challenge was held at the same venue. This event helped raise students’ awareness about protecting water resources. 50 participating students from four secondary schools were invited to carry out tests of the raw water quality at the Ma On Shan Water Treatment Works.
The 71st meeting of the CLG was held in January 2015 at the Ma On Shan Water Treatment Works (MOSWTW). Following a guided tour to the MOSWTW, a presentation was given to members about the installation of Fresh Water Cooling Towers (FWCTs) and the simplified E-bill Services.
"The 12th Green Carnival 2015 cum The 14th Creative Eco-model Tournament" organised by the Green Council were held at the Kowloon Park Piazza in Tsim Sha Tsui on 1 February 2015. The double event celebration actively called on the public to begin adopting a more eco-friendly lifestyle. More than twenty game booths were set up at the venue to educate the public on environmental protection issues. The WSD also parked the “Let’s Save 10 Litres Water” Mobile Showroom at the venue to promote water conservation to the public in more interactive and interesting ways.
The 5th Walk for Living Water organised by the Amity Foundation was held on 14 March 2015 in Shatin. This event successfully raised funds for the building of water systems in water-deprived mountain areas of Mainland by requiring participants to experience the heavy burden of carrying water-filled buckets every day. At the same time, this event helped promote public awareness about the world’s water crisis. Apart from having teams to participate in this event, the WSD also arranged a game booth at the carnival to promote water conservation.
The “Hong Kong Water Race 2015” organised by the Wofoo Social Enterprises and co- organised by the WSD was held at the Kai Tak Development Site on 22 March 2015. The event served as a way of promoting the concept of ‘water footprint’ to the public and helped spark greater awareness of water conservation by means of city orienteering. The event has received an overwhelming positive response in the past three years and attracted more than 3,300 participants in 2015.
For the first time, staff and their families celebrated the Lunar New Year at a carnival in a waterworks Installation (rooftop of a service reservoir), featuring game stalls, a lion dance as well as magic shows and martial arts performances.
The Salt Water Supply System for the Northwest New Territories of the WSD supplies seawater to Tuen Mun East, Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai for toilet flushing in order to save precious fresh water resources. To celebrate the commissioning of the system, the WSD organised a “Commissioning of Salt Water Supply System for Northwest New Territories cum ISO 50001 Certificate Presentation Ceremony” in March 2015 at Lok On Pai Salt Water Pumping Station in Tuen Mun. The Secretary for Development, Mr Paul Chan, and the Director of Water Supplies, Mr Enoch Lam, officiated the joint-ceremony.
A representative from the British Standards Institution presented the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) 50001 certificate for energy management systems to the WSD during the joint- ceremony to signify that WSD was the first government department to be awarded with the certificate, demonstrating the department’s achievement of higher standard in energy management.
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