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Water supply and sanitation in Hong Kong is characterized by water import, reservoirs, and treatment infrastructure. Though multiple measures were made throughout its history, providing an adequate water supply for Hong Kong has met with numerous challenges because the region has few natural lakes and rivers, inadequate groundwater sources (inaccessible in most cases due to the hard granite ...
The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) was created in 1986 to co-ordinate and carry out pollution prevention and control activities. [2] Staff and resources from six government departments were deployed to the EPD. The EPD replaced the Environmental Protection Agency (which had been created in 1981 to replace the Environmental Protection ...
The Water Supplies Department ( WSD; Chinese: 水務署) is the department under Development Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong of the People's Republic of China providing a reliable and adequate supply of wholesome potable water and sea water to customers in Hong Kong. The headquarter office is located at the Immigration Tower on Gloucester ...
Reservoirs in Hong Kong are spread fairly evenly over the entire 1,104 km 2 of Hong Kong. There is plenty of space for small reservoirs in Hong Kong, as the hilly areas provide valleys suitable for water storage. However, the larger reservoirs, i.e. High Island Reservoir and Plover Cove Reservoir, were built differently.
In order to solve the water supply problems, the Hong Kong Government built a concrete dam on Chi Ma Wan Peninsula, Lantau, on the opposite bank of Cheung Chau with a capacity of about 130,000 m 3, 91.1 m long and 15 m high in a small reservoir and then used a 6-inch submarine pipe to divert water to the Cheung Chau Ferry Pier and transport it ...
Plover Cove Reservoir. Plover Cove Reservoir, located within Plover Cove Country Park, in the northeastern New Territories, is the largest reservoir in Hong Kong in terms of area, and the second-largest in terms of volume. [1] It is the world's first freshwater coastal lake constructed from an arm of the ocean.
Tsing Yi Tong. Categories: Bodies of water of China. Bodies of water by city. Bodies of water by dependent territory. Landforms of Hong Kong. Water in Hong Kong. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
Shek Pik Reservoir. South Lantau Road at Shek Pik Reservoir. Shek Pik Reservoir (Chinese: 石壁水塘) is a reservoir in Shek Pik on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Built between 1957 and 1963, it has a storage capacity of 24 million cubic metres [1] and is the third largest reservoir in Hong Kong after High Island Reservoir and Plover Cove Reservoir.