Macao's daily demand for tap water might reach a record of
200,000 cubic meters later this year, local media reported on
Monday.
The Macau Post quoted Oscar Chu Wai Man, deputy general
manager of the Macao Water Company, as saying that the highest
demand for tap water peaked at 182,229 cubic meters on July 28,
2003.
Chu told the newspaper that the rising demand for tap water in
the special administrative region is due to the growing number of
hotels, casinos and visitors.
Macao Water is in negotiations with the relevant authorities in
Zhuhai, a neighboring mainland city in south China’s Guangdong
Province, to build a new water-supply pipeline, Chu said.
Both sides hope to strike an agreement by the end of this year,
he added.
Macao Water signed a 25-year water-supply concession agreement
with the Zhuhai Water Affairs Administration in 1985.
(Xinhua News Agency May 31, 2005)