Faced with water stress, BEWG strengthened water resources management at the source. In response to the State Council’s Water Pollution Prevention Action Plan, we developed the Management System for Water Source Areas – in accordance with laws and regulations such as the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution and the Water Law of the People’s Republic of China – to protect water source areas and the surrounding environment, and ensure a sustainable supply. Each project company developed its own water source protection policies, based on local conditions.

By actively innovating, continuously developing and improving existing technologies, improving the management efficiency of each link at the water supply end, strictly controlling self-water consumption during production and operation, actively exploring new models for the development and utilization of reclaimed water and new water, innovating and promoting seawater desalination process, building sponge cities, etc., BEWG has recycled and reused the water resources, and accurately predicted the water demand to achieve full and reasonable use of every drop of water resources, continuously improve the utilization efficiency of water resources, and alleviate the pressure of water shortage.

The vast network of pipes is the pulse of urban water supply. Once leakage occurs, massive waste of water resources will be caused, thus affecting the economic costs. BEWG always takes the reduction of pipe network leakage rate as one of the important tasks of quality control and water conservation. During construction, we have strictly controlled the construction quality of the pipeline network, and included the conditions of “evaporating, emitting, dripping or leaking” of the pipeline into the scope of quality assessment. During the operation period, we have carried out inspections for pipeline network leakage, and regularly replaced and maintained the aging pipelines. In addition, we have built an intelligent leakage control platform by relying on a smart water supply platform, and have also established a leakage control analysis system by making use of the information analysis tools such as geographic information system (GIS) and hydraulic model to perform real-time monitoring of pipeline network leakage, so as to significantly reduce the waste of water resources caused by pipeline network leakage.