Despite the British army bringing in supplies of bottled water and fitting a pipeline, Save the Children was told that water is being sold to the local people at a price few can afford.

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Southern Water is fitting 500, 000 meters for households in Hampshire, Sussex and Kent by 2015.

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These companies have proposed putting a stone weighing millions of tons into a tight-fitting water column.

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