Water storage figure
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    Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9am today (August 21) stood at 92.55% of capacity or 542.380 million cubic metres.

     This time last year the reservoirs contained 570.608 million cubic metres of water, representing 97.37% of capacity.

Ends/Monday, August 21, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:35

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