These plants need the fresh water flow from the river for cooling, processing, and to ship their product out to the Gulf.

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You certainly won't hear these people celebrating achieving this water Millennium Development Goal when their need remains so great.

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We've got volunteers who are out here who are making sure that these firefighters have the food and the water and all the resources that they need.

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"We need to be able to go back and give these people education, clean water, nutrition, medicine, " says Lomong, who also reunited with his family in South Sudan in 2007.

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So can you imagine we're going to need like clinics to treat these people because you can imagine the diseases that's going to come from this water.

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