Just as we are all water managers, we all need to take responsibility for the wise use of wetlands in order to keep humankind supplied with water.

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At Umm Qasr hospital, two doctors are treating 300 patients each day in a building which has not been supplied with water for more than four days.

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At the global level, The Ramsar Convention has called for local to national governments to recognise wetlands as the primary sources from which humans derive water and that they are a major and critical component of the water cycle that keeps us supplied with water.

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More than one million people, it says, will be supplied this summer with water from Britain's first large-scale desalination plant in east London.

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In an interview with the BBC to mark the 25th anniversary of the disaster, he told me that the communities around the plant had been supplied with clean drinking water.

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Addicts must bring their own drugs to the Insite facility, where they are supplied with clean needles and sterilised water.

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For now, Mr Yang's school is holding out, with a diesel generator and cans of water supplied by well-wishers.

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The first occurred in late 2011, when EPA surveyed residents regarding their private wells and reviewed hundreds of pages of drinking water data supplied to the agency by Dimock residents and PDEP, along with records from Cabot Oil and Gas Exploration which had been accused of creating a problem.

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