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Plants in peril

London: World Cup organisers seem to have miscalculated the number of toilets needed. They have provided just 280 port-a-loos for the more than 700,000 fans who congregate on the `fan mile' in Berlin to watch matches on giant screens. Thousands of them are resorting to emergency measures — urinating in the bushes. Biologists have warned that plant and tree life in the area is in danger because of the 100,000 litres of urine being dumped every day— PTI

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