The document is a collection of photos related to water access around the world on World Water Day. It shows people in many countries and situations carrying, collecting, drinking, and bathing in water from various sources like rivers, ponds, wells, and standpipes. The photos depict the important role of water in daily life and the challenges some face in accessing clean drinking water.

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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