About this Report
The Sustainability Report 2016-17 of Drainage Services Department (DSD) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) summarises our achievements in the past year and enables our stakeholders to have a better understanding of our vision and commitment to sustainable development.
Report Profile 
DSD1 publishes its 5th Sustainability Report, titled “Sponge City: Adapting to Climate Change” (the Report), in which we elaborate our economic, environmental and social performance during the fiscal year 2016-17 (i.e. 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017). The Report serves as a significant means of communication to report our sustainability performance to our stakeholders.
The Report was prepared in accordance with “Core Option” of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. To assure the accuracy, reliability and credibility of the Report, and its compliance with the requirements in the corresponding Standards, we have appointed an independent accreditation agency to verify the contents of the Report. The Report has successfully completed the GRI Materiality Disclosures Service and GRI confirmed the correctness of the locations of the General Disclosures 102-40 to 102-49.
The Report is available online in web-based HTML, PDF and text-only versions with three types of characters (English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese). The Executive Summary of the Report is also available in printed version.
Your opinions on the report content, report approach and our sustainability performance are highly valued. We treasure your feedback and suggestions that spur our operation and performance. Please complete the feedback form of the Report and return it to us.
