To force the issue she embarked on a hunger strike drinking water but nothing else.
The evidence from unglamorous sewerage and hygiene projects is that helping an extra billion people in this way will do much to reduce diarrhoea, cholera and other water-borne diseases that strike the poor disproportionately.
The biggest protest was in Cochabamba, where much of the city came to a halt in a strike against proposed new water charges.
We went on hunger strike to ask for hot water, just to be able to take a shower.
Both began a hunger strike in November taking in only water and refusing food supplements.
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The Bahrain Center for Human Rights -- a group Abdulhadi al-Khawaja founded -- said he had recently threatened his guards that he would stop drinking water, in addition to continuing his hunger strike, unless his treatment improved.
For most of his strike, he has been taking only water as well as vitamins, minerals and sugars.
During her hunger strike, Ms Spence is consuming only water, fish broth and a medicinal tea, Reuters news agency reports.
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During her hunger strike, Ms Spence is consuming only water, fish broth and a medicinal tea, Reuters news agency reported.
He was widely praised after Thursday's forced water landing, apparently caused by a "double bird strike, " which crippled the plane's engines.
Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysis of Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming.
Blogger Maikel Nabil has been on a hunger strike since 23 August and according to his brother, he could refuse water if he is not freed.
The prisoners say that they have been denied water and that the air conditioning was being kept frigid to punish them during a hunger strike.
This means having a nuclear deterrent, a deployable army division, a blue-water navy with two aircraft carriers, and an air force with fighters and deep-strike jets.
Ships are known to strike right whales, partly because the black creatures are difficult to spot on the water.
The Lebanese press is busy dusting off old charges that Israel is diverting Lebanese water for its own use, while other reports claim that Israel uses the zone as an artillery and air-strike training range.
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