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Date: 2007-08-15 (Wednesday)
The explosive growth of urban centres over the last 30 years, which continues unabated in most of the developing world, is rapidly depleting once plentiful water resources.
-- Anna Tibaijuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and executive director of the Nairobi-based UN-Habitat, addressing the 17th annual World Water Week in Sweden






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