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A Marine holds a hose and watches as a foreign service member drinks water.

Fresh Water

Marine Corps Cpl. Gage Wesley, left, gives a Sri Lankan navy medical officer a sample of fresh water from a lightweight water purification system during a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise in Mullikulam, Sri Lanka, Jan. 23, 2023. The event was part of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training/Marine Exercise Sri Lanka, a bilateral exercise between the United States and Sri Lanka.

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