The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.

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It said clear, sterile water would be discharged and there would be a back-up system in case of error.

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In the summertime the pumped water starts off warmer than the earth, but the warmth is absorbed by the earth, and the water comes back up at 57 degrees and is used as an air-conditioning refrigerant.

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And then one of them must have come back that night or another, because I woke up in the small hours with a hot-water bottle under my feet.

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