Water storage figure
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     Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9am today (August 23) stood at 75.79% of capacity or 444.14 million cubic metres.

     This time last year the reservoirs contained 473,538 million cubic metres of water, representing 80.80% of capacity.

Ends/Monday, August 23, 2010
Issued at HKT 11:03

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