An Afghan man drinks water from a bucket
as a woman collects her shareof
water from a mobile water tank provided
by CARE, an internationallyfunded
NGO in Kabul, June 4, 2003. Most of the
people in Kabul do nothave access to
drinking water in their homes and a four-
year drought inpredominantly arid
Afghanistan has forced many Kabul
residents to walkmiles in order to
collect drinking water from wells and
public outlets.The United Nation's
World Environment Day will be celebrated
onThursday with a theme of &
quotWater - Two Billion People are Dying
for It".REUTERS/Arko Datta<
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REF: AFGHANISTAN
A Sri Lankan boy displaced due to the
tsunami drinks water from a tap at a
make-shift shelter in a school in the
town of Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east
coast January 15, 2005. REUTERS/Arko
Datta AD/
LA
REF: QUAKE SRI LANKA
A child drinks water under a fire engine,
which is used to transport water to
drought-suffering residents, in
southwest China's Chongqing September 1,
2006. The Chinese government has
allocated another 20 million yuan ($2.5
million) to fight the drought in
Chongqing. The worst drought in a
century has caused losses of 6.5 billion
yuan ($816 million) in the municipality,
Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture
taken September 1, 2006. CHINA OUT
REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA)
REF: CHINA
A young girl walks with two bags of cold
drinking water in Monrovia, Liberia,
October 9, 2005. Liberians will go to
the polls October 11 to choose a
successor to deposed warlord-turned-
president Charles Taylor. Pictures of
the Month October 2005 REUTERS/Jonathan
Ernst
REF: LIBERIA ELECTION
An Indian man climbs out of a well in
the village of Chuda Chokadi 150km (
93 miles) west of Ahmedabad in Gujarat
state June 13, 2003. The manclimbed
150-feet down the well with a seven-
litre rubber pouch strappedon his
back to fetch a days' supply of drinking
water for localresidents. REUTERS/
Amit DaveJSG/
RCS
REF: INDIA
A South African child drinks from a
communal tap in Soweto township, south
of Johannesburg, March 22, 2006. March
22 marks the 14th United Nations World
Water Day. REUTERS/Siphiwe
Sibeko
REF: SAFRICA
An Afghan boy looks back from his mule
as he takes drinking water homein
buckets, Kabul, June 10, 2003. Most of
the people in Kabul do nothave
access to drinking water in their homes,
and a four-year droughtin
predominantly arid Afghanistan has
forced many Kabul residents totravel
miles in order to collect drinking water
from wells and publicoutlets.
REUTERS/Arko DattaAD/
TW
REF: AFGHANISTAN
Kashmiri earthquake survivors carry
water back to their tents in Thuri Park
refugee camp on the outskirts of the
earthquake-devastated city of
Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan-administered
Kashmir February 5, 2006 on "Kashmir
Day". More than two million people
have been living in tents or crude
shelters patched together from ruined
homes since the October 8 quake killed
more than 73,000 people in northern
Pakistan. REUTERS/Yannis
Behrakis
REF: QUAKE SOUTHASIA
Shiva, an eight-year-old Indian boy,
carries drinking water through a busy
road in Mumbai December 1, 2005. REUTERS/
Adeel
Halim
REF: INDIA
Shi'ia children stand near stagnant
water in the Tariq district of the
Saddam city neighbourhood in Baghdad May
26, 2003. Shi'ia families areforced
to drink and cook with the disease-
ridden water as flowing water,which
is also contaminated, is scarce in the
area. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty
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REF: RTROAS2
An Indian girl stands beside a tap at
the village of Hawala in thewestern
state of Rajasthan August 1, 2002.
Rajasthan is going throughits driest
summer in half a century, wrecking the
crops that are itslivelihood and
leaving millions of people without water.
REUTERS/PawelKopczynskiJSG/
RCS
REF: INDIA DROUGHT
A Bangladeshi girl swims with a jar to
collect drinking water through a flooded
residential area of Narayanganj. A
Bangladeshi girl swims with a jar to
collect drinking water through a flooded
residential area of Narayanganj town
20km (13 miles) from the capital Dhaka
July 26, 2004.Thousands of people in
Dhaka took boats to work on Monday after
floods inundated large parts of the
Bangladeshi capital, forcing up to 100,
000 people to cram into shelters. Many
streets in the city of 10 million people
were waist-deep in water as the country'
s most severe floods in 15 years worsen.
About one-third of Dhaka was under water
and boats replaced richshaws as primary
transport. REUTERS/Rafiqur
Rahman
REF: BANGLADESH FLOODS
People gather to get water from a huge
well in the village of Natwarghad in the
western Indian state of Gujarat on June
1, 2003. Natwargadh is in the midst of
the worst drought in over a decade. Dams,
wells and ponds have gone dry across
the western and northern parts of
Gujarat forcing people to wait for hours
around village ponds for the irregular
state-run water tankers to show up as
the temperature sores to over 44 degree
Celcius. The United Nation's World
Environment Day will be celebrated on
Thursday with the themeof "Water
- Two Billion People are Dying for It&
quot. Pictures of the month June 2003
Pictures of the Year 2003 NO RIGHTS
CLEARANCES OR PERMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED
FOR THIS IMAGE REUTERS/Amit Dave
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REF: INDIA
A Maasai man passes near a zebra carcass
near Isinya in Kenya, March 7, 2006.
Hundreds of people and tens of thousands
of livestock have died from hunger and
thirst across a vast region in east
Africa, encompassing some of Africa's
poorest and most arid zones. REUTERS/
Radu
Sigheti
REF: KENYA
A resident collects water from a water
storage tank on the outskirts of Suining,
southwest China's Sichuan province,
November 19, 2006. Officials with
southwest China's Sichuan Province and
Chongqing Municipality made pledges at
an ongoing conference about drought
relief that they will strengthen the
water conservancy construction "at
all costs" to avoid the recurrence
of the droughts affecting the two places
this summer, Xinhua News Agency reported.
CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)
REF: CHINA
A Kenyan woman puts water into her
plastic containers on the road to the
northern town of Wajir, 492 km (305
miles) from the capital Nairobi, January
12, 2006. Kenya said on Thursday it
would waive import duty on relief food
to feed millions of people facing famine
in the country's worst drought in years.
REUTERS/Antony
Njuguna
REF: KENYA DROUGHT
