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Almost all amount of the raw water is channeled from Lake Biwa by the
Lake Biwa Waterway into Kyoto City and purified at 4 Purification Plants:
Keage, Matsugasaki, Yamanouchi and Shin-Yamashina.
Keage Purification Plant, the oldest one in the city, was established
in 1912 and began supplying water in April of the following year, as the
first plant using the rapid sand filtration method in Japan. This plant
is open to the public every spring. Please come and see our beautiful
flower.
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