Hong Kong Shares Water Management Innovations at Sri Lanka Climate Symposium

EPD participates in Belt and Road International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply in Sri Lanka

An Environmental Protection Department (EPD) delegation attended the International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply organised under the Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative in Sri Lanka today (December 17), to share Hong Kong's water environment management technology and experience with Indian Ocean countries, including Sri Lanka (Symposium organising country),Comoros, Madagascar, the Maldives and Seychelles.

The Symposium is organised by the China-Sri Lanka Joint Research and Demonstration Centre for Water Technology, and is being held in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on December 16 and 17. Its objective is to promote exchanges and co-operation between China and Sri Lanka, as well as other B&R countries around the Indian Ocean, on water environment science and technology, with a view to strengthening the training of professionals, assisting in solving key water environment and public health issues, and driving sustainable water resources management.

Attendants of the Symposium are from the Sri Lankan Government, a number of national research organisations and tertiary institutes, including the Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka, the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the CAS, as well as representatives from research organisations and tertiary institutes from China, Sri Lanka, Comoros, Coted'Ivoire, Madagascar, the Maldives, Seychelles and more.

At the Symposium, the EPD delegation conducted in-depth exchanges and experience sharing with the participating parties to jointly promote high-quality green development under the B&R Initiative, and delivered two thematic presentations to introduce Hong Kong's water quality management strategies and smart technology applications from a practical management and technological development perspective, including various technologies for source pollution control, sewage collection and treatment, real-time online water quality monitoring and three-dimensional water quality simulation. The delegation also visited the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka to learn about its latest green technology developments and had technical exchanges with local scientific researchers.

EPD participates in Belt and Road International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply in Sri Lanka Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

EPD participates in Belt and Road International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Water Supply in Sri Lanka Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

Public invited to Hospital Authority Board Meeting

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:

Members of the public are invited to attend the Hospital Authority (HA) Board Meeting to be held on December 19 (Thursday) at 3.30pm.

The HA Board Meeting has been open to members of the public since 1998 to demonstrate the continuous effort of the Authority to enhance its transparency and public accountability. The HA Board holds meetings at regular intervals to discuss major health policy issues that have impacts on the public. Through these open meetings, the community is able to understand more about the role and functions of the HA Board as well as the operation and services of the HA and its hospitals.

The HA Board will discuss the following agenda items in the coming meeting:

2023 Patient Experience Survey on Inpatient Service;

Progress Report on Strategic Priorities; and

Cluster Presentation Programme - Hong Kong East Cluster - Establishment of Sensorium Garden at the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital.

The meeting agenda and papers will be made available to the public at the meeting. Members of the public are reminded that they can attend the Board Meeting only as observers and will not be participating in the meeting discussions.

Members of the public who are interested in attending the coming Board Meeting have to make an advance booking by contacting the Secretariat of the HA Board at 2300 6797 before noon on December 19. To facilitate booking arrangements, members of the public are advised to provide their names and contact telephone numbers. In view of the limited seating available in the public gallery of the meeting venue, seating will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.