A think tank has proposed a fairer pricing deal for the city’s water supply from mainland China amid escalating costs.
Since 2006, the Hong Kong government has been paying a fixed lump sum to its mainland supplier for an annual quota of 1.1 billion cubic metres of water from Dongjiang, or East River, in southern Guangdong province.
However, Hong Kong’s actual water consumption has only accounted for an average of 85 per cent of the agreed supply over the past 10 years, according to...
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