/ 10 June 1999

KINSHASA WITHOUT WATER

WATER supplies were early Wednesday cut off across Kinshasa, a city of five million people, because of a lack of treatment products, the national distribution company announced. Stocks of the products, such as chlorine, arrived at the southwestern port of Matadi several days ago and should reach the capital soon, the company said on national television, adding that supplies could be restored later on Wednesday.