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New Straits Times
07-02-2002
Serious threats to fresh water
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Earth Matters
Memo: (STF) - The Government, being concerned with the environment, has made one of the thrusts of the Eighth Malaysia Plan the better conservation and management of the environment and natural resources, one of which is water.

WATER, the liquid of life, is one of Mother Nature's most precious and threatened resources even though 70 per cent of the earth's surface is covered with it. Out of this, only three per cent is fresh and the rest, which is largely seawater, will need ...

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