Filipino village beauty Patricia Ericka Luis De Leon (R), wearing a gown made from dried water hyacinth stalks, reacts during the Water Lily pageant in Las Pinas City, south of Manila, Philippines, 28 July 2016. Patricia Ericka Luis De Leon was crowned Miss Water Lily 2016 during a festival that aims to promote the water hyacinth-based livelihood enterprise for the benefit of residents in flood prone communities of Las Pinas City. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)
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