MILLENNIUM GOALS: Watery South Pacific has Nor Any Drop to Drink
5th Sep 2005, 13:25 GMT
SYDNEY, Sep 5 (IPS) - -The Pacific Ocean covers 32 million square kilometres of blue water that takes up a third of the world's surface, and its 10,000 scattered islands with a land mass of 130,000 square kilometres is home to 8 million people. Yet, most of them lack potable water.
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