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China Daily | Updated: 2008-07-02 07:42
Water sent to Cyprus
Parched Cyprus took its first delivery of water by ship from Greece on Monday to stave off a drought which has sapped water reserves to critically low levels and triggered emergency rationing.
A tanker containing some 40,000 cubic meters of drinking water - more than double the quantity held in all of the Mediterranean island's 17 main reservoirs - anchored off Cyprus's southern coast close to midnight.
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