Sydney

  • 26/12/1997

another water contamination scare : For the second time in a month, Sydney residents today awoke to warnings that tap water in the city that will host the 2000 Olympics is unfit to drink. In a city that considers itself one of the world's most modern, water fountains in school playgrounds were shut down and sign put up in office blocks warning people not to drink the water unless it had been boiled for at least a minute.