The Centre for Water Technology and Policy at The University of Hong Kong, established in 2018, is an inter-faculty collaborative unit between the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Social Sciences. Through inter-disciplinary research and analysis, the Water Centre generates professional insights on complex, multi-dimensional problems in the urban water sector. The strengths of engineering and social sciences disciplines are purposefully converged and fused, through innovative inter-disciplinary research design and analytical lens, to create unique diagnostic capabilities for us to deliver on those insights.

The thematic focuses of the Water Centre’s research programme include: Water conservation; water loss control; water reuse; and freshwater ecology. The Centre’s flagship project, entitled “Smart Water Auditing,” makes use of smart technologies (including Internet of Things, machine learning, and edge computing) to analyse domestic and non-domestic water consumption patterns and composition. Research findings of this project are facilitating the provision of timely and tailored feedback to users to achieve tangible water conservation targets. These findings could also help optimise the operational efficiency of our city’s overall water supply system.

Website: https://water.hku.hk
Email: watercentre@hku.hk
Tel: 3910 2415
Fax: 2517 0806