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Hampton Roads treating wastewater till it’s good enough to return to aquifer.

Rebuilding depleted drinking water supply could also reduce rate of sea level rise, slash pollution.

Rebuilding depleted drinking water supply could also reduce rate of sea level rise, slash pollution

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'The Pantanal is national heritage': Protecting the world's largest wetlands.

Spanning Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia and home to 4,700 species, the Pantanal wetlands are under threat from deforestation and agriculture. But local people are taking on the challenge to protect this unique region.

Inside a small aircraft, decorated with a polka-dot jaguar design, Ângelo Rabelo checks data on a small laptop computer. “We’re approaching a river spring!” he shouts over the plane’s noisy engine.

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Our water is full of drugs and we don't know their effects.

Water reuse means we are all consuming a cocktail of other people's leftover medicines. In other words, pick up a glass, fill it from the tap and take a sip. You have just had a tiny dose of the pill your neighbour took days before. But measuring impacts is almost impossible.

By Anthony King

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