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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Record Drought Throws Wet Towel on U.K.'s Soggy Image


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Cattle drink from a small chalk river in Hampshire in southern England.

These rivers, which are fed by underground chalk aquifers, are suffering from low flows following the driest 16-month period in the U.K. in more than 70 years.

Photograph by James Owen