No deadline has been given as to when the pipelines will be fixed to resume water supplies to 300,000 residents who have been without water for more than 60 hours.
However, temporary water supply pipelines are expected to be set up late Tuesday, according to the city government.
City authorities have purchased 1.5 million bottles of mineral water for locals to drink and ordered 25 fire trucks to deliver water for other household purposes.
It has also ordered vegetables from neighboring Liaoning Province to ensure supply.
On Tuesday, major reservoirs in Jilin discharged water in preparation for new downpours.
Breaches of the embankments of the swollen Songhua River in Songyuan City and Nongan County, respectively, are being monitored.
Related:
Chinese Vice Premier calls for prompt reconstruction after floods
XI'AN, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has urged local authorities to keep flood casualties and losses to minimum and to launch reconstruction work in a timely and orderly way.
Hui was speaking during an inspection of flood-affected areas in Weinan and Shangluo cities in north China's Shaanxi Province from Aug. 2 to 3.Full story
Heat lingers in south as north expects rainstorms: forecast
BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's Central Meteorological Station forecast Tuesday that lingering heat would persist in the south while more rain is expected to hit the northeastern regions during the next three days.
The observatory continued to issue an orange alert Tuesday, warning that temperatures are likely to hit 37 degrees Celsius in some parts of Chongqing, Guizhou, Sichuan and Shaanxi, while provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan may see temperatures of 40 degrees during the next three days.Full story
Dam on Yangtze tributary set to withstand "100-year" floods
WUHAN, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A costly project to enable a key dam on central China's Hanjiang River to control "100-year floods" is near completion,officials said Tuesday, days after heavy rains raised the river to its highest level in three decades.
Workers have finished raising the Danjiangkou Dam to allow the maximum water level to rise from 162 meters to 176.6 meters, adding 11.6 billion cubic meters to the reservoir's current capacity of 17.45 billion cubic meters.Full story
Chinese leaders stress safety in flood relief work
BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have ordered local governments to protect lives and ensure safety in their efforts to deal with floods and relief work.
Instructions issued by the central government said flood relief work had entered a crucial stage and all-out efforts should be made to fight the floods. Full story
Floods cut tap water supply in NE China city
TONGHUA, Jilin, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rains have damaged water pipelines leaving 300,000 people without tap water for two days in Tonghua, an industrial city in northeast China's Jilin Province, officials said Monday.
More than 300 workers had been mobilized to restore the water supply, said Wang Ruimin, head of the public utility bureau in Tonghua. But he gave no deadline as to when the supply would be resumed. Full story
Special Report: China Fights Against Floods
