Monday, May 8, 1972
"The site for the plant has been determined on technical
grounds," the spokesman explained. "It is near clean sea water and Tai
Lan Chung Reservoir, making both obtaining raw water and distributing
the product water economical.'
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He recalled that Government announced in May last year it had
embarked on a 20-million-per-day desalting plant to add to Hong Kong's
water resources.
In January this year, however, Government decided to double
the capacity of the desalter when it became clear that demand for water
was continuing to grow at such a rate that conventional reservoir sources
alone were no longer adequate.
The spokesman pointed out that site formation works were to
start only shortly after the Board of Directors of the Asian Development
Bank had formally approved last month a loan of HK$120 million
(US$21.50 million) to the Hong Kong Government to help bring forward
this colossal water project.
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