Water storage figure
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    Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9am today （October 16） stood at 90.09% of capacity or 527.965 million cubic metres.

     This time last year the reservoirs contained 565.834 million cubic metres of water, representing 96.55% of capacity.

Ends/Monday, October 16, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:52

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