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Published online 9 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060508-5

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Sri Lanka's water still plagued by tsunami

Wells flooded with salt and pollution, survey finds.

The devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004 is still making itself felt in Sri Lanka; though more than 16 months have passed, the well water in many coastal areas of that country is still undrinkable, a study has found.

The Indian Ocean tsunami, created by an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killed more than 25,000 people in Sri Lanka.

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