On race day, personnel were on hand to provide runners with water all along the route and to treat them for dehydration on the scene or, in some cases, at hospitals.

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In hamlets all along the DMZ, soldiers were knee-deep in mud and water as they helped farmers with the spring planting.

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Mr Scott testified in a hearing before Wyoming's water authority, the state board of control, that he had been irrigating all along.

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All along the coast, the urgent talk is not just about survival in the face of shortages of food, water and fuel.

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