Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) Director Susana Wong Soi Man has said that the government expects to supply reclaimed water to Coloane’s sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood and the University of Macau (UM) campus in the first quarter of next year.
Wong made the remarks on Friday while delivering her Chinese New Year message by phone call to the audience of the current affairs phone-in programme hosted by Ou Mun Tin Toi, the Chinese-language radio channel of public broadcaster TDM.
According to Wikipedia, water reclamation, aka wastewater reuse or water recycling, is the process of converting municipal wastewater (sewage) into water that can be reused for a variety of purposes, such as the flushing of toilets, watering plants, road cleaning, car washing, and firefighting. Such water is also known as reclaimed water.
According to the DSAMA website, reclaimed water in Macau will be used for two purposes first, namely the flushing of toilets and watering plants.
Construction of Macau’s first treatment plant for wastewater reuse, located in Coloane, got off the ground in October last year.
The city’s first reclaimed-water plant will be located next to the Coloane Wastewater Treatment Plant near Concórdia Industrial Park.
The reclaimed-water plant is being constructed in two phases.
Wong noted on Friday that the construction of the first phase of the reclaimed-water plant in Coloane is underway, while underground reclaimed-water pipes connected to the plant are being installed. She underlined that the government expects the plant’s first-phase construction and the installation of the respective pipes to be completed before the first quarter of next year when the plant will be able to start supplying reclaimed water to Coloane’s sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood and the University of Macau (UM) campus.
The UM’s current campus is situated in a one-square-kilometre area of Zhuhai City’s Hengqin island that is under the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) direct jurisdiction, i.e., Macau’s laws and regulations fully apply there.
Wong noted that after the second phase of the reclaimed-water plant in Coloane is completed in the future, it will start supplying reclaimed water to properties in Cotai.
Wong also said that the government will build another reclaimed-water plant, on a plot on the man-made island where the Macau checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) is located, adding that after its completion, it will start supplying reclaimed water to properties on the HZMB man-made island, in the Zone A land reclamation area, and on Plot P in the peninsula’s Areia Preta district.
This undated photo downloaded from the Marine and Water Bureau’s (DSAMA) website yesterday shows purple pipes in a building used for carrying reclaimed water.
