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electric

Other large public utility

power

telecommunications.

stations,

the

investments

include

water supply and

The two privately owned, but

government regulated, electricity companies nave each built

large new generating stations in the past decade which can

be run on either coal or oil. The complex at Tap Shek Kok

in the North West New Territories. when fully completed

nokt your, Will have મ Lotul capacity of 4,000 meya walls,

making it one of the largest in the world. Hong Kong also

plans to buy up to 70% of the electricity generated from

the nuclear power station at Daya Bay in China now being

built by a Chinese/Hong Kong joint venture company.

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Continuous

meet the

territory's

investment has also been necessary to

ever increasing demand for water.

Until the early 1980's the greater part of the supply came

series of reservoirs and associated catchment areas

from a

constructed within Hong Kong itself. Today, however, more

than a half of Hong Kong's water supplies are bought from

China but investment in large treatment and distribution

works

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still required in

Hong

Kong

itself.

Responsibility for

government's Water Supplies Department.

water supplies lies

with

the