Water storage figure
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    Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9am today（July 17) stood at 88.92% of capacity or 521.096 million cubic metres.

     This time last year the reservoirs contained 536.905 million cubic metres of water, representing 91.61% of capacity.

Ends/Monday, July 17, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:45

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