PHILIPPINES: Water supply warnings

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Source: IRIN, via Reuters and AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/1373c410ff621e5d60737f7dd6a0f788.htm

Poor hit hardest: Maynilad supplies water to some of the poorest areas in Metro Manila. Matubis said the rationing last year hit the poor the hardest. "They depend on the water rationed to them, whereas the rich can buy bottled water or [afford] to have water delivered to them," Matubis told IRIN. (fair usage quote)

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