Celebrating World Water Day - in pictures

From India to Venezuela, Unesco's annual event focuses attention on global shortages

A man washes clothes on the banks of the river Brahmaputra on World Water Day (March 22) in Guwahati, India. AP Photo

The cracked earth of the Sau reservoir north of Barcelona, Spain. AP Photo

With no running water at home, a woman fills a container at a water fill station in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo

Carmelo Del Valle, displaced from his home by the rising waters of the Paraguay River, fills buckets to haul to his temporary shelter in Asuncion, Paraguay. AP Photo

Women carry water on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen. More than 17 million of Yemen's 30-million population lack access to safe water, the UN says. EPA

A woman returns home after collecting drinking water from a tanker on World Water Day in New Delhi, India. Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of World Water Day. AP Photo

A man in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, a day before World Water Day. Ivorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi announced an investment of about $5 billion to achieve universal access to drinking water by 2030. EPA

People wash clothes in a public pool of spring water in Japakeh, Indonesia, on World Water Day. AFP

A photograph taken on March 16, 2023 shows the dried-up lake Serre-Poncon, near Embrun in the French Alps. AFP

A woman washing up outside her house in a slum on the eve of World Water Day in Mumbai, India. AP Photo

The Satluj river in the valley below the snowy peaks in Kinnaur district of the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, India. AP Photo

Wind pumps in Kinderdijk, Netherlands. The pumps prevent the region from being flooded, since a third of the Netherlands lies below sea level. AP Photo

Franklin Caceres checks a water pump used to collect water from a well in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela. Caceres supplies water to more than 400 people. AP Photo

A man puts empty water containers back on a lorry belonging to a private distributor in Caracas, Venezuela. AFP

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