Water storage figure
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     Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9am today（August 24）stood at 80.86% of capacity or 473.895 million cubic metres.

     This time last year the reservoirs contained 544.379 million cubic metres of water, representing 92.89% of capacity.

Ends/Monday, August 24, 2009
Issued at HKT 14:45

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