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UNICEF sending water purification tablets to Myanmar from Copenhagen warehouse
iht.com May 8, 2008
UNICEF is sending 3 million water purification tablets to Myanmar, enough to provide clean water to 200,000 people for a week, officials said Thursday. ... UNICEF spokesman Jakob Colville-Ebeling said 10 pallets of purification tablets would be sent to Bangkok on...
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