World Water Day is observed on March 22 every year. The day to recognize the importance of earth's most precious natural resource was proposed 20 years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. While we often take water for granted, many cannot. And water plays a role in almost everything we do. We drink it, wash in it, play in it, generate power with it, irrigate crops with it, travel and transport goods on it, fight fires with it, and worship with it. Gathered here are images of water from the last year in all its uses, in scarcity and in abundance. -- Lane Turner (48 photos total)
A child bathes from a public tap in his neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on March 6, 2012. A UNICEF report says unhygienic conditions cause an estimated 1. 2 million child deaths before the age of five from diarrhea worldwide every year. The report says in urban areas access to improved water and sanitation is not keeping pace with population growth. (Eranga Jayawardena/Associated Press)
- 20th Lancers Armored Regiment
- Aamir Qureshi
- Afghanistan
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- Ahmadabad
- Akhtar Soomro
- Albert Gonzalez Farran
- Android
- Australia
- Baghdad
- Balkans
- Banadir hospital in Mogadishu
- Bay of Maldives
- Belgrade
- Bill Pugliano
- Bosnia
- Boston Globe
- Brent Lewin
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- Chile
- China
- China Daily
- Dadaab
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- Daniel Mihailescu
- Danube river
- Darfur
- David Loh
- DESIREE MARTIN
- Dir
- Djibouti
- Djibouti
- Drina river
- Eddie Keogh
- Eid al-fitr
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Fisher Lake
- Germany
- Getty Images
- Getty Images
- Great Salt Lake
- ground water
- Hanifaru Bay
- Harrisonburg
- Harry Parr
- Huesca
- India
- Indian Ocean
- Indonesia
- Indonesia's government
- iPhone
- Islamabad
- Israel
- Italy
- Ivan Milutinovic
- Jan Benzien
- Japan
- Jeneponto
- Jiyuan
- Joe Raedle
- John Javellana
- Joseph Irungu
- Justin Falls
- Kabul
- Kenya
- Lane Turner
- Lee Valley White Water Centre
- local utilities
- London
- Louisiana National Guard
- Maldives
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- Marc Minguell
- Matthew Lloyd
- Maurizio Felugo
- Mediterranean
- Mediterranean coast
- Melbourne
- Miami
- Miami Beach
- Michigan
- MOHAMMED HOSSAM
- Nairobi
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- New Delhi
- New Orleans
- New Zealand
- North America
- northeastern India
- NY Times Co.
- Okayama
- Oregon
- Pacific Ocean
- Pakistan
- Pakistani army
- Papua
- Pennsylvania
- Portland
- provincial government
- Qingdao
- Raja Ampat
- Raja Ampat archipelago
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- Romania
- Sam Bompas
- San Angelo
- Santiago
- Sava river
- Scott Barbour
- Scott Olson
- Sean Phillips
- severe food crisis
- Shanghai
- Shendi
- Siliguri
- Simon Chandra
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- Somalia
- South Pacific
- South Pacific ocean
- South Sulawesi
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Stock photography
- Sudan
- Sukkur
- Susquehanna River
- tear gas
- Tehran
- Tenerife
- Texas
- the FINA Swimming World Championships
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- United Nations
- United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
- United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
- United States
- Utah
- Virginia
- Wayne County
- Westland
- World Water Day
- Yellow River
- Yiliang
- Your Town
- Yunnan
- Yusuf Ahmad
We humans share this planet with countless other species, interacting with many of them daily, others rarely. We treat some as sources of food and others as sources of companionship, entertainment, or education. We experiment with them at a genetic level, try to understand their overall behavior, and bond with them on an intimate scale. Most animals live their lives independently of us, but they dwell in habitats that we shape profoundly. Gathered below are images of animals in the news from the past several weeks, seen from the perspectives of their human observers, companions, captors, and caretakers. [42 photos]
A monkey who survived the Ivorian post-electoral crisis at the Abidjan Zoo. Three lions named Lea, Simba and Loulou, "died of hunger", said Claude-Sie Kam, a zoo employee, to an AFP reporter. About forty animals perished due to lack of food at the Abidjan Zoo during the Ivorian crisis. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)
- Alaska
- Albuquerque Journal
- Alexander Demianchuk
- Andrew Stiny
- AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune
- Australia
- Bangkok
- Bay of Maldives
- Bay of Maldives\
- Belarus
- Belgium's Flemish association
- Berlin
- Biology
- Bishkek
- Bogota
- Brian Snyder
- Britain
- Brussels
- California
- Cape Town
- Chester Zoo
- Cheyenne
- China
- China Daily
- Claude-Sie Kam
- Colombia
- Colorado City
- Cuba
- Daniel Berehulak
- David Loh
- Delhaize
- dental services
- Dressage Championships
- Enrique De La Osa
- Eric Kayne
- Ethics
- Europe
- food
- France
- Germany
- Getty Images
- Getty Images
- Gloucester
- Gold Coast
- Greg Medina
- Hanifaru Bay
- Hanover
- Holger Hollemann
- Houston
- Hubei
- Ian MacNicol
- Independence Day
- India
- Indiana
- Indianapolis
- Israel
- Issyk-Kul lake
- Jae C. Hong
- James Brosher
- Japan
- Jo Yong-Hak
- JOHANNES EISELE
- John Vizcaino
- Jon Nazca
- Karachi
- Kathmandu
- Kazuhiro Nogi
- Kenya
- Klamath
- Klamath River
- Kyoto University
- Kyrgyzstan
- Labiofam Laboratories
- Laos
- Local media
- Logan Stockton
- Lucy Nicholson
- Malaga
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mass media
- Massachusetts
- Michal Cizek
- Michele Haskell
- Michinori Saito
- Mike Segar
- Minsk
- Musselburgh
- Musselburgh Golf Club
- Nairobi
- Nakhon Phanom
- Nepal
- New Mexico
- New York
- New York City
- Noor Khamis
- Norway
- oil
- Olivia Corya
- Pakistan
- Pakistan's Independence Day
- Phil Noble
- Pishchalovo
- Pygmy
- Ramat Gan Safari
- Reuters
- Reuters
- Robin Utrecht
- Rotterdam
- Samut Prakan
- Santa Clara
- Scotland
- Sebastien Duperdu
- Seoul
- Seth Altamus
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St.Petersburg
- stem cells
- Sullivan County
- supermarket
- Surfers Paradise Beach
- Svalbard
- Svalbard archipelago
- Taos
- Texas
- Thailand
- the European Championships
- The Indianapolis Star
- the Ivorian post
- Times Herald-Record
- Tokyo
- United Kingdom
- Vasily Fedosenko
- Vietnam
- Villa Clara
- Vyacheslav Oseledko
- Wang Dalin
- Washington Heights
- White Lake
- Wuhan
- Wyoming
- Yoshikazu Tsuno
- Yves Herman
- Zambia
- Zoo