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Mexican girls survive flood by clinging to tree for four days
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 11th, 2010
Guardian: Two girls aged nine and 10 have survived floods that wreaked havoc in Mexico by clinging to the branches of a tree for almost four days. Lizbeth Dalin and her younger sister Lesli Dalimel Gaona Trevino, who were found in the north-east state of Tamaulipas, told rescue workers they had survived without any food or water in that time. Authorities were alerted to their plight after the girls were spotted by a group of fishermen who had set up camp on the banks of a ...
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Oz turns to oceans for drinking water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 11th, 2010
Toronto Sun: Still recovering from a 10-year drought on the world's driest inhabited continent, Australia is increasingly turning to the oceans that surround it for drinking water. Australia's five largest cities have embarked on a massive $13-billion plan to build desalination plants that can remove the salt from seawater and make it potable. By 2012, when the last plant is scheduled to be up and running, Australia's big cities will get 30% of their water from the oceans, The New York ...