To prepare for challenges arose from the impact of climate change, we proposed to reduce the per capita fresh water consumption by 10% by 2030 at the earliest (using 2016 as the base year) in the Policy Agenda 2017.
We will take forward a host of measures:
- Enhance collaboration with various stakeholders;
- Implement Mandatory Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (WELS) through legislative amendments;
- Make wider use of Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) systems to enhance awareness of water conservation;
- Establish the Water Intelligent Network and replace and rehabilitate aged government water mains;
- Take specific measures to deal with the leakage problem at private water mains, including provision of necessary technical advice and support to property owners and management agents and assistance to the market in developing expertise, stepped up monitoring and enforcement actions; and
- Explore imposing water charges on property owners according to the amount of estimated water loss from their private mains through legislative amendments.