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Flushing water cut on Tsing Yi

The flushing water supply to all premises on Tsing Yi will be temporarily suspended from 10 pm on Thursday (December 5) to 8 am the following day for repair work on watermains.

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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 94.7 per cent of capacity or 555.218 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 572.453 million cubic metres of water, representing 97.7 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

5705

0930

+340

Closing balance in the account

4000

1000

+340

Change attributable to:

1100

+340

Money market activity

-1160

1200

+340

LAF today

-545

1500

-1160

1600

-1160

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 124.9 +0.1* 2.12.96