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Water Management Plan Hong Kong
John Herbert
Director
A water management plan (WMP) is a policy and management
document describing the operation and manage the fresh
water installation in your building.
Colour indicates poor quality of tap water
The Water Management Plan should be customised for your building, it should
assign the roles and responsibities for personnel, and detail
routine inspection, water sampling, tank cleaning, maintenance frequencies,
response to defects, and list remedial work, if any, for entire the water
system under the control of the building owner.
Kelcroft site checking reveals water quality issues
Under the control of the building owner (or management company) is a
key point, the water meter may be located near the consumer, in Hong Kong
the Water Supplies Department responsibility stops at the lot boundary,
therefore all the piping tanks, etc. from the lot boundary to the taps
are under the building owners responisbility.
WMP Process
The procurdure to create a Water Management Plan (WMP) for an existing building
would reference acknowledged standards where possible, and include:
- Document Review
- Site Review
- Bespoke WMP
The water management plan (WMP) content should cover the basics, frequency
of inspection, water sampling, reporting, record keeping, and the like,
plus an aduit proceedure for the periodically reviewing the WMP itself.
John Herbert, past chairman of the Hong Kong BEAM Water Use panel,
has thirty years experience designing and auditing buildings crafts
water management plans for building owners.
The best time to prepare a plan is before a crisis, once you have a
plan in place, you may be on leave or out of town on business, but
you have piece of mind that your know your staff have a plan to follow.
For a quote to prepare your bespoke Water Managememt Plan call
us today!