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Hello, this week we're dipping our toes into water.

Where does it come from?

Could we ever run out and I take a stroll through a local sewage plant.

Plus in the news on the hunt for malaria's Achilles heel, why coral reefs are being silenced

and a microscopic laser which could work inside the human eye.

I'm George Mills and I'm Isie Clark and this is the Naked Scientist.

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First up, a new weapon in the fight against malaria. The disease which kills

over half a million people every year is caused by a parasite transmitted by

mosquitoes. The parasite is becoming resistant to our current

treatment so scientists are in a race against the clock to come up with new ones.

And new research from the Welcome Sanger Institute may help because they've identified which genes inside the parasite's

DNA are vital to its growth meaning we can design drugs more effectively.

Katie Haler heard more from one of the researchers Julian Rayner.

There is currently a treatment for malaria, but one of the central problems with malaria is that the parasites

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