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In this July 26, 2013, photo, Des Moines Water Works lab technician Bill Blubaugh takes a water sample from the Raccoon River in Des Moines. The water works has faced high nitrate levels for many years in the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers, which supply drinking water to 500,000 people. The mandate to increase ethanol production, with millions of acres of new row crops being planted, is helping to increase nitrate pollution in municipal water supplies like Des Moines. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Frustrated families wait in the rain for evacuation flights in Tacloban, central Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport here on Tuesday seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it, leaving behind a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with countless bodies. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
