Topical Guide: Water Supply in

Water Supply in Hong Kong

Government departments In charge Source of water supply Quality of water

Possible Keywords Possible Keywords Possible Keywords

Public Works Department, Waterworks Office, , Reservoir, Water resource, Water supply(ies), Water

Water Supplies Department, Water Resources Plover Cave Reservoir, , shortage/Water supply emergency, Save water,

Development Committee Lok On Pai Desalting Plant, Reservoir, Water Tanker

Desalination, East River Water

Archival holding (examples)  HKRS545-1-386-1: Desalination 1963-1979,  Water Supplies Department: Water

 HKMS158-1-318: Sea Water Distillation, 1963 - 1978 Resources Survey: Final Report, 1968

1963-1964  HKRS491-1-1: High Island Water Scheme (628.1 WSR 1968/F)

 HKMS158-1-186: Water Supply in Hong (General and Policy), 1969-1974  Hong Kong Water Supplies Department:

Kong, 1960-1962  HKRS287-1-365: Water Emergency - Lok On Pai Desalting Plant (627.86 LOK

 HKRS41-2A-126-2: Water Supply 1967 – Pump Sea Water into Reservoir - 1974)

Emergency 1963, 1963-1965 Shek Pik /Tai Lam, 1967  Water Supplies Department: Hong Kong’s

 HKRS41-1-5487: Water Supply - Publicity  HKRS287-1-281: – Water, 1996 (628.1 HON 1996)

Campaign to "Save Water"., 1949-1955 General Corresp., 1967-1969  水務署：《香港的全面水資源管理 :

 HKRS70-3-821: Waterworks - Waterworks  HKRS34-3-35: Development of Water 持續共享珍貴水資源》, 2008 (363.61

Office (Review) Resources, XCC (63) 91, 1963 XIA 2008)

 HKRS163-3-33: Water Supplies –  HKRS34-3-35: Sea Water Distillation,  Official Languages Agency: An

Co-ordination of Measures to Deal With XCC (64) 34, 1963 English-Chinese Glossary of Terms

Emergency Shortage, 1965-1968 Government publication (examples) Commonly Used in Government

 HKRS156-2-2376: East River - Shumchun  Hong Kong Annual Report, 1946 - 2008 Department (Volume 21): Water Supply,

Scheme, 1964 (X1000133) 2001 (628.1 ENG 2001)

 HKRS156-1-3375: Tai Lam Chung  Water Supplies Department: Report of Non-government publication Reservoir – Progress Reports–, 1956-1957 Hong Kong Water Supplies Department, (examples)

 HKRS287-1-983: Water Resources Survey 1996 – 2009, with gaps (X1000552)  Desalination and its Role in Water Supply,

- Policy Committee, 1964-1969  Public Works Department: Government of 1967 (628.167 DES 1967*)

 HKRS287-1-366: Water Emergency - 1967 Hong Kong Water Supply: Report on the  Ho Pui Yin: Water for a Barren Rock: 150

- Publicity on Saving Water, 1967-1968 Hydrological Position in March, 1963 and Years of Water Supply in Hong Kong, 2001

 HKRS357-3-2: Development Schemes – Recommendations, 1963 (363.61 REP (628.1 WAT 2001)

Water Resources Development 1963)  何佩然：《點滴話當年 香港供水一

Committee – Minutes and Agenda,  Water Supplies Department: Water 百五十年》, 2001 (628.1 WAT 2001 CHI)

1969-1972 Resources Survey: Desalting, 1968 (628.1  The Regional Committee of Hong Kong,

 HKRS163-3-226: Water Supplies - WRS 1968/D) China: Commemorative Album for the 40th

Importation of…..by Tanker., 1967-1968 Anniversary of the Commissioning of the

Plover Cove Reservoir, 2007 (363.61 COM

2007)