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Water cut in Yuen Long

The fresh and flushing water supply to some premises in Yuen Long will be temporarily suspended from 11 pm on Thursday (September 26) to 6 am the following day for waste detection work on watermains.

The suspension will affect all premises at Tai Shu Ha Road East between Ma Tong Road and Tai Tong Road including Ma Tin Tsuen.

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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 98.6 per cent of capacity or 577.716 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 558.111 million cubic metres of water, representing 95.2 per cent of capacity.

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Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

change

$ million

(hours)

($million)

Opening balance in the account

1,816

0930

+340

Closing balance in the account

2,101

1000

+340

Change attributable to:

1100

+340

Money market activity

+340

1200

+340

LAF today

-55

1500

+340

+340

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 124.5*+0.0* 23.9.96