Amost every day, water makes the headlines somewhere in the world. Droughts, floods and pollution are all big news, as water becomes the most precious, and most contested, essential resource.
Today, however, the biggest story is that more than 650 million of the world's poorest people are living without access to an 'improved' source of drinking water.
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