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17 Feb 2010
Source: Reuters
 
A woman carries a container filled with water from a public tap in Sanaa in this picture taken February 3, 2010. More water is consumed than produced from most of Yemen's 21 aquifers, especially in the highlands, home to big cities like Sanaa, with a fast-growing population of two million, and Taiz. Yemen's water crisis is worsened by excessive irrigation by farmers growing qat, a mild narcotic leaf that dominates life in Yemen, where most men spend half the day chewing it, even at work. Picture taken February 3, 2010. To match feature YEMEN-WATER/ REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE)
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Villagers line up to collect drinking water from a well at a drought-hit village in Chuxiong, Yunnan province March 13, 2010. A severe drought in southwest China, which local people say ...




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