Water storage figure
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    Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9am today（December 18）stood at 80.63% of capacity or 472.522 million cubic metres.

     This time last year the reservoirs contained 498.126 million cubic metres of water, representing 85% of capacity.

Ends/Monday, December 18, 2006
Issued at HKT 12:20

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