60 years of Dongjiang-SZ water supply to HK: A bond of life and prosperity

The “Dancing Water Drops Exhibition”, which will last through June, was created by artist Simon Ma to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Dongjiang-Shenzhen water supply project. Starting operation in 1965, the project ended the days of water scarcity in Hong Kong — a city that lacks its own fresh water resource — by supplying water from Dongguan’s Dongjiang River, which originates in East China’s Jiangxi Province, to Hong Kong via Shenzhen Reservoir through dams, pumping stations and 83 kilometers of pipelines. By March this year, the project had supplied more than 30 billion cubic meters of water to Hong Kong, meeting about 80% of Hong Kong’s water demand. Four upgrades over the years have expanded the project’s supply capacity from 68 million cubic meters per year in the 1960s to over 2.4 billion cubic meters now. 

Visitors pose for photos at the “Dancing Water Drops Exhibition” held at Tamar Park in Hong Kong yesterday. Xinhua