The Taiwan Water Corporation will resume the intake of water from the Keelung
River today following an oil spill late last month that affected water
supplies to some 180,000 households.

The corporation says it's resuming intake operaitons after confirming that
the water now meets drinking-water standards.

According to corporation chairman Lee Jia-rong, the company strengthened its
monitoring of water quality at the suspected source of the spill after the
Keelung City Government completed dredging and anti-pollution measures.

Lee says those monitoring measures included rapid screening for odor and
volatile compounds.

The water corporation chairman is stressing that no traces of oil have been
detected for several days and third-party tests have verified that the water
meets both drinking water source standards and drinking water standards.

However, he's also admitting that the actual source of the pollution has yet
to be identified.

Water intake from the Keelung River was suspended on November 27 after an oil
slick was detected.