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HE SAID ONE-THIRD OF THE WATER SUPPLY YIELD FROM THESE AREAS.
CAME FROM
THE NATURAL
SUPPLY
FROM CHINA, THROUGH
"IT WOULD BE UNWISE TO RELY SOLELY ON THE WHICH IS EXTRACTED FROM A SINGLE RIVER SOURCE AND IS PROVIDED A DELIVERY SYSTEM OVER A LONG DISTANCE.
LOSS OF WATER FURTHERMORE, HE SAID ANY
FROM THE GATHERING WATER GROUNDS IN HONG KONG WOULD HAVE TO BE MADE GOOD BY BUYING MORE FROM CHINA.
AREAS
OF
HE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT WHILE RESTRICTIONS ON CATCHMENT
THE CATCHMENT MUST BE IMPOSED TO ENSURE A HIGH QUALITY OF WATER FROM AREAS, A FLEXIBLE APPROACH WAS ADOPTED TO MAXIMISE THE UTILISATION LAND TERRITORY-WIDE.
"SUCH CONTROLS WILL OF COURSE VARY DEPENDING ON CIRCUMSTANCES," THE SECRETARY SAID.
OF CATCHMENT AREAS WAS GENERALLY, ANY EXISTING USE MAINTAINED AND THE RESTRICTION WAS MORE STRICT ON CROWN LAND LEASED LAND.
LARGELY THAN ON
то
COMMUNITY-WIDE
A "MORE STRINGENT CONTROL IS IMPOSED IF
SED DEVELOPMENT COLLECTION OR A RESERVOIR. LESSER IS NEARER TO THE POINT OF WATER RESTRICTIONS APPLY
DEVELOPMENT, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES."
PROPOSED
SUCH
AS
RUN-OFF
VERY STRINGENT WHERE DEVELOPMENT WAS PERMITTED, MR BLAKE SAID
POLLUTION OF THE WATER CRITERIA WERE IMPOSED TO ENSURE NO WITHIN THE CATCHMENT AREA.
DEPOSIT PROTECTION SCHEME MOTION PASSED
A MOTION
ON
THE
DEPOSIT PROTECTION
SCHEME WAS
PASSED
BY TODAY
LEGISLATORS AFTER A TWO-HOUR DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (WEDNESDAY).
TWENTY-ONE
LEGISLATORS SPOKE ON THE MOTION MOVED BY AFFAIRS, THE HON EDWARD CHEN. THE SECRETARY FOR MONETARY NENDICK, SPOKE ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT.
PROFESSOR MR DAVID
ANOTHER
MOVED BY DR THE HON CONRAD LAM MOTION SAFETY WAS ALSO PASSED.
ON
INDUSTRIAL
FOURTEEN MEMBERS DEBATED EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR JOHN CHAN, AND MR JAMES BLAKE, REPLIED FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
THE MOTION AND THE SECRETARY FOR THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS,
/IN ADDITION