World Water Day

1. A child carries water home through a brick factory on the outskirts of Yangon Myanmar once known as the 'rice bowl of Asia' because of its agricultural riches.Ye Aung Thu/ AFP

2. Photos to make you think twice about wasting this precious resource.
World Water Day March 22

3. Villagers carry pitchers filled with drinking water after visiting a well at Meni village in the western Indian state of Gujarat.Reuters

4. Slum dwellers collect drinking water from a submerged
hand-pump after heavy rains in the northern Indian city
of Allahabad.Reuters

5. A girl collects drinking water from the Dala river outside Yangon, Myanmar.Reuters

6. Residents crowd around the only standpipe in Mabella slum in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.Reuters

7. A man carries buckets filled with water on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India.Reuters

8. A villager walks past a caked pond in the drought-hit Shilin County of Kunming, Yunnan province, China.Reuters

9. A boy drinks coloured water from a pond in Bule Duba village, near the edge of Oroma and Somali regions of Ethiopia.Reuters

10. A man drinks water from a pump in a flooded area of Nowshera
district, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.AFP

11. A girl collects water from a hole in the ground in the Tariq district of the Saddam city neighbourhood of Baghdad.Reuters

12. A man, marooned by flood water along with
his his livestock, waves towards an Army
helicopter for relief handout in the Rajanpur
district of Pakistan's Punjab province.Reuters

13. A girl carries potable water to her home in Goma.Pedro Ugarte/ AFP

14. A slum dweller keeps an eye open for trains as she
collects drinking water from a puddle between
railway tracks in Mumbai.Reuters

15. Ismael Adam, 2, drinks from a bowl of water
at the Abu Shouk camp for internally
displaced people, in El-Fasher, Sudan.Reuters

16. A man collects water from a storage tank
on the outskirts of Suining, southwest
China's Sichuan province.Reuters

17. Women queue for drinking water from a municipal corporation water tanker in the western Indian city of AhmedabadReuters

18. Children push a cart with water containers along a bombed-out street in Aleppo, Syria.Reuters

19. A woman carries jerry cans to fill them with water from a communal tap in Yemen's capital Sanaa.Reuters

20. People gather to fetch water from a huge
well in the village of Natwarghad in the
western Indian state of Gujarat.Reuters

21. A man fills barrels with potable water from a tanker truck at Lomas de Carabayllo, a shantytown north of Lima, Peru.Reuters

22. Bottles tied to ropes are lowered into an almost empty well in Bhaktapur, Nepal.Reuters

23. A girl uses a submerged hand-pump to fetch drinking water during floods at Dhuhibala village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.Reuters

24. A woman collects a sample of red polluted water flowing from a sewer into the Jian River in Luoyang, north China's Henan province.AFP

25. A man wraps a cloth around himself after a ritual dip in the polluted Yamuna river in New Delhi.Reuters

26. An Indian labourer drinks water at an
aluminium reprocessing unit in Dharavi,
Asia's largest slums in Mumbai.Arko
Datta/ Reuters

27. A young Rohingya girl carries water to her tent at a IDP camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar.Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images

28. 13 January, 2016: A Kashmiri fisherman throws out his net from his boat on Dal lake during dense fog in Srinagar.Tauseef Mustafa/ AFP

29. Women collect drinking water from a shallow bed of the Siang River at
Berasapori village, some 560 kms from Guwahati, the capital city of India's
northeastern state of Assam.AFP

30. Reuters

31. A girl from the war-torn Blue Nile state collects water from a muddy pond in South Sudan's Doro refugee camp.Reuters

32. 8 January 2016: An Indian farmer stands on a cart pulled by a horse during foggy weather in Jalandhar.Shammi Mehra/ AFP

33. 15 March, 2016: A farmer harvests broccoli in the town of al-Ansariyeh south of Sidon, Lebanon.Ali Hashisho/ Reuters

34. Displaced people carry water containers on their heads at Tomping camp, near South Sudan's capital Juba.James Akena/Reuters

35. Residents use an improvised raft to cross a sewage canal at a slum in Mumbai.Reuters

36. Children bathe in waste water at a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia.Reuters

37. A resident digs a well in Arbeen, in the eastern
Damascus suburb of Ghouta,Syria.Reuters

38. Somalian refugees return from collecting water at the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya.Getty Images
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