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Patients who found it difficult to talk about their problems in the office opened up once they got in the water with these empathetic mammals.

"The road is long and difficult, there's no food or water," said Alaa Saleh, a schoolteacher who fled Gaza City with his wife and six children to Khan Younis in the south.

A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.

In response, local authorities have begun a province-wide effort to encourage residents to eliminate standing water and reduce mosquito breeding grounds.

It was the second day of youth-led protests, triggered by anger over persistent power and water shortages, and Ms Edmondine's daughter-in-law ran into a nearby building with other protesters to take cover.