About this picture: Haiti Earthquake Aid agencies,
Aid agencies and the US military were engaged in a desperate race to provide earthquake-devastated Haitians with enough clean water to stave off the threat of dehydration and massive outbreaks of waterborne diseases.
With hundreds of thousands living on the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, following a catastrophe in which as many as 200, 000 may have died, the shortage of clean water was emerging as the new focus of the unfolding disaster.
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