The authors express their sincere appreciation to the following individuals for their help in preparing the materials of the chapter on ‘Climate Change’ in the “Water Resources Information Portal”. Koko Liu provided able research assistance. Ella Chan prepared the visual materials on the greenhouse gases emission related to water production and consumption. In addition, Ella Chan, Jill Chan, and Koko Liu assisted with copyediting, translation, typesetting, and standardising charts and figures, enhancing the overall visual quality of the Water Resources Information Portal. Ella Chan, Jill Chan, and Koko Liu are project staff in the Centre for Water Technology and Policy.

The authors would like to acknowledge the constructive feedback provided by Professor Lewis Cheung, Dr. May Chui, Professor Danny Lam and Dr. Lishan Ran on earlier drafts of the Information Portal.

The Water Resources Information Portal is an integral part of a multi-year interdisciplinary project entitled “Harnessing the Power of IoT Technologies, Data Analytics, and Advanced Household Profiling Techniques to Sustain Water-conscious Behaviors and to Inform Water-sector Infrastructure Planning,” led by Professor Danny Lam. This research project (S2021.A8.034.21S) has received funding from the Strategic Public Policy Research Funding Scheme of the Chief Executive’s Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Philomathia Foundation and the WYNG Foundation.