The agreement on boosting water supply to Macao is signed by Director General of the Water Resources Department of Guangdong Province, Mr Lin Xutian, and Director of the Marine and Water Bureau of the Macao SAR, Ms Wong Soi Man.
Macao will build a new water supply pipeline connecting Hengqin and Cotai to further improve the stability of water supply and accommodate Macao’s need for water as the city develops. An agreement between Guangdong and Macao would see the construction of the new water supply pipeline – the fourth such structure – and maintenance work on the Ping Gang Pumping Station and Guang Chang Pumping Station. The agreement was signed in Zhuhai on 30 November by the Director General of the Water Resources Department of Guangdong Province, Mr Lin Xutian, and the Director of the Marine and Water Bureau of the Macao SAR, Ms Wong Soi Man. Authorities expect work on the fourth pipeline to start this month and be completed by mid-2017. It would be 15 kilometres long and would supply 200,000 cubic metres of raw water to Macao per day, according to the agreement. Construction would cost 528 million yuan and would be paid for by the Macao Government, the agreement further stated. The authorities in Macao and Guangdong also reached agreement on building another water pipeline connecting the Ping Gang Pumping Station to the Guang Chang Pumping Station and related facilities, in order further to enhance stability of Macao’s water supply system. That 22-kilometre long pipeline connecting the two pumping stations will move one million cubic metres of raw water each day once it is completed; probably before the end of 2018. Macao’s raw water supply consists of three major feed points and two reserve ones. Approximately 95 percent of Macao’s raw water comes from the Modaomen Estuary of the Xijiang (West River) in neighbouring Zhuhai. Zhuhai currently supplies about 254,000 cubic metres of water to Macao each day. In 2014, it supplied a total of 92.87 million cubic metres of raw water.
