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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Sunlight Not the Solution for Clean Water -- New Study


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Residents wait in line to buy water jugs outside a warehouse in Villahermosa, Mexico, November 2, 2007, after a flood devastated the area.
A new study shows that a popular method of using plastic bottles to disinfect water with sunlight may not help protect people from water borne disease, due partly to stigma.
REUTERS/Tomas Bravo