Filipino candidates wearing gowns made from dried water hyacinth stalks, pose during the Water Lily pageant in Las Pinas city, south of Manila, Philippines, July 24, 2014. Jian Cayla Salazar was crowned Miss Water Lily 2014 during a festival that aims to promote the water hyacinth-based livelihood enterprise for the benefit of residents in flood prone communities. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)
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