The rain and river water in the city state's reservoirs is being mixed with recycled waste-water from air-conditioners, sinks and toilets.

ECONOMIST: The city state's bid for self-sufficiency

Grizzled, his peculiar aviator glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended the household machinery, the air-conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, and pumps, like an engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer in an Atlantic gale.

NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

Oh, and they'll keep screening for bottled water, yogurt, cream cheese, toothpaste, shampoos and conditioners in containers larger than 3.4 ounces.

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