Singapore, Lack of water supply forced the British to surrender early in this siege.
Too much faith in defenders without adequate water?, not a problem if city on a river,. but river water polluted, like many.
No river for Mariupol though.

By the great number of tears shed,
from top to bottom and from the bottom to the very top,
a life is lost through a game with too much faith,
to die of thirst through a great deficiency

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