Hongkonger takes on ultra-running challenge to raise awareness for water crisis as fresh water availability projected to fall by 40 per cent in 12 years

Hong Kong’s daily usage of water is 220 litres per capita, double that of other world cities

Development Bureau and Water Supplies Department launch public consultation on using reclaimed water and grey water.

But expert questions if HK$19.7 million saved from importing this amount from mainland is worth it, against city’s massive consumption bill.

Dire threat mobilised a city in South Africa, but local residents unaware of wastage and growing supply problem here, experts say.

Hong Kong has much to rethink in water governance, from reformulating its water tariff scheme to tracking usage more effectively.

Two weeks of record hot weather have brought back memories of the 1963 drought and tight water rationing. It’s time to heed warnings that climate change and our wasteful water-use habits are a crisis in the making.