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The four monitors comprised two non-official Justices of the Peace, Mr Michael Cheng Tak-kin and Mr David A Gilkes; and representatives from two non- government organisations, Mr Stephen Tsui from Oxfam and Mr Adam Voysey from Christian Action.
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Water supply suspensions advertised every Friday
The Water Supplies Department has stepped up its efforts in keeping consumers informed in advance of major planned water supply suspensions by placing advertisements in newspapers.
The advertisements, which appear every Friday in six Chinese-language newspapers and one English-language newspaper, cover major water supply suspensions planned in the following week.
These advertisements would include only those suspensions of which the affected areas were large and distribution of notices to every individual customer was not practicable, a spokesman for the Water Supplies Department said today (Friday).
"This new arrangement is part of our department's continuing efforts to improve our services to the customers. It will supplement the current practice of announcing major planned supply suspensions through radio announcements and press releases.
"At the same time, distribution of individual notices to major housing estates and buildings will also be carried out as far as practicable," he said.
The spokesman said that for planned supply suspensions of a smaller scale, consumers would continue to be informed directly by notices distributed to their premises or buildings or through their management offices.
"Urgent supply suspensions will be announced through the radio as soon as possible," he added.