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Monday, December 17, 2007

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Safe drinking water gets harder to tap

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Water is the subject of a new book called "Blue Planet Run." Kai Ryssdal talked with its author and photographer Rick Smolan about how so much of the water we do have is polluted and unusable.

Foul-smelling water mixed with coal runs from Kenny Stroud's faucet in Rawl, W.Va. For years, residents of the Appalachian coal-mining town have had to rely on water trucks and deliveries for clean water. (Melissa Farlow/From Blue Planet Run)

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"I disagree with Diana Nyad, who told Bob Moon today that Americans are not interested in Wimbledon because there are so few Americans playing. I love watching tennis, no matter who is playing. I have watched tennis for years, but the networks toy with us, creating drama rather than showing the match. Oftentimes, televised matches end precisely when the allotted time expires, even if they have to cut and splice. When they don't, as happened in a Nadal match last weekend, we were left hanging at the end of two sets, as NBC switched to women's golf. I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't switch to MSNBC as was suggested. It's enough to make me turn off the TV and read about the matches online."

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