Water storage figure
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     Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9am today (August 18) stood at 93.54% of capacity or 548.210 million cubic metres.

     This time last year the reservoirs contained 452.728 million cubic metres of water, representing 77.25% of capacity.

Ends/Monday, August 18, 2008
Issued at HKT 11:15

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