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From BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition:
The UK's first desalination plant providing drinking water for Londoners and people in the south-east has been granted government approval.
The plant in Beckton, east London, will start producing water sometime in 2009, in times of drought or low rainfall.
The site will provide up to 140m litres of drinking water a day - enough for nearly one million people.
But critics say the plant is a "sticking plaster" solution to the water crisis.
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