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HONG KONG ΤΟ
COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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23 August 1967
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Press Report 230650.
Attention Glover.
Situation.
Hong Kong this morning went back on a twenty-four hours water supply as a result of the recent rains brought by tropical storm Kate.
Director of Water Supplies, Mr. Robertson, said however, that round the clock supply is only temporary but it will continue for at least the next few days.
He said water storage as a result of storm had increased dramatically by three thousand million gallons to bring total water storage to fourteen thousand eight hundred million gallons.
He said some reservoirs were already overflowing while others were eighty-eight per cent full.
Mr. Robertson added that even when the reservoirs stop overflowing Hong Kong would not have to go back to supply every fourth day. The new supply hours would depend to some extent on runoff and rainfall in the next two or three days.
If storage position continues to improve he said, then, with water from China which under the agreement starts on 1 October the colony shall be able to maintain a daily supply though perhaps not for twenty-four hours daily.
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