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Pakistan floods just one of its water woes (AP)

August 28th, 2010

People use a damaged railway track to cross heavy floodwater in Sultan Kot, in southern Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. According to the United Nations, almost 17.2 million people have been significantly affected by the floods and about 1.2 million homes have been destroyed or badly damaged. The floods began almost a month ago with the onset of the monsoon and have ravaged a massive swath of Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Thousands of farmers have crowded this once-quiet Pakistani town. They live on the hospital’s lawn, they camp on overpasses. Their fields are destroyed, covered by billions of gallons of brown soupy floodwater.


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