Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/02/20
By: Huang Li-yun and Romulo Huang

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) A total of 170,000 households in Taichung and Changhua had no tap water starting at 8 p.m. Monday after a water supply pipe in Taichung was ruptured accidentally as work was being done on Taichung’s public sewage system, state-run Taiwan Water Corp. said.

The suspension of the supply of water will affect some 60,000 households in Taichung for 36 hours, to 8 a.m. on Feb. 22, and some 110,000 households in neighboring Changhua County for 26 hours, or until 10 p.m. on Feb. 21, the company announced.

In addition, some 40,000 households in Taichung are being affected by lower water pressure, it said.    [FULL  STORY]