Water
is having a significant impact on many people's lives around the world
right now. From droughts to quake lakes, floods to monsoons, people and
animals are dealing with water in many ways. In these recent photos,
we can see people play, wash, mourn, survive, escape, celebrate and
marvel with something so basic as water.
Department
of Water and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in
the Ivanhoe reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008.
Department of Water and Power released about 400,000 black plastic
4-inch balls as the first installment of approximately 3 million to
form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir to protect the
water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine
in Ivanhoe's water, the carcinogen bromate can form. (Irfan Khan/AP)
Earthquake
survivors wash clothes at a river in Leigu town of the Beichuan
county, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on May 31, 2008.
China was poised May 31 to drain water out of a dangerous "quake lake"
as more than 197,000 people have been evacuated in case of flooding, an
official from nearby Mianyang city said. (AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon)
Water
flows through a sluice channel of the Tangjiashan quake lake in
Tangjiashan, Sichuan Province June 8, 2008 in this picture distributed
by China's official Xinhua News Agency. The water level in the quake
lake stood at 741.82 metres above sea level at midday on Sunday, still
1.45 metres higher than the sluice, with the lake's volume exceeding
240 million cubic metres, Xinhua News Agency reported.
(REUTERS/Xinhua/Li Gang).
In
this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the water gushed
out of the Tangjiashan quake lake at 9 a.m. of Tuesday, June 10, 2008
in southwest China's Sichuan Province. China declared an end Tuesday to
the crisis over the brimming lake formed by the May 12 massive
earthquake that had threatened to flood downstream communities. (AP
Photo/Xinhua/ Li Gang)
A
bridge is destroyed by floods in the worst earthquake-hit area of
Beichuan county, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on June
10, 2008. Muddy, brown water from a quake lake in southwest China was
pouring into the flattened town of Beichuan June 10, piling new woes on
its tormented population. (LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images)
People
place candlelights into a river to mourn the deceased of the May 12
Sichuan earthquake on a river beach the eve of 'Duanwu Festival' on
June 7, 2008 in Beijing, China. More than 69,000 people are now known
to have died in the quake and Chinese aid workers are struggling to
find shelter for millions who lost their homes in China's worst quake
in three decades. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)
People get hit by monsoon-driven waves from the Arabian Sea crashing on a seawall in Mumbai June 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Arko Datta)
A
child collects rain water running off of a tent at a camp for
people displaced from Cyclone Nargis near the Irrawaddy Delta town of
Labutta, some 320 kms (200 miles) from Myanmar's largest city of Yangon
on May 31, 2008. A month after Myanmar's cyclone left 133,000 people
dead or missing. (AFP/KHIN MAUNG WIN)
Villagers
set off firecrackers on their dragon boats on a river at Liede Village
in Guangzhou, in south China's Guangdong province, Sunday, June 8,
2008. Dradon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, the day remembrance the
annivesary of the death of patriotic poet Qu Yuan, a minister who
committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo river in central
Hunan province after his nation was conquered in 277 B.C. (AP
Photo/Color China Photo)
Passengers
hang on as rescuers arrive to rescue them off a capsized ferry boat,
where seven other passengers are missing on the Zhijiang river, a
tributary of the mighty Yangtze river, after a storm hit Zhijiang
county in central China's Hubei province on June 3, 2008. Torrential
downpours in China have so far claimed 64 lives in 2008, with
flash-floods destroying thousands of homes as well as bridges and large
swathes of crops. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
Residents
walk through several feet of floodwaters to get to higher ground along
Rocky Ford Road in Columbus, Ind. on Saturday, June 7, 2008. Hundreds
of residents had to be rescued as floodwater shut off several areas
throughout the city. The flooding resulted in one confirmed death and
is estimated to have caused several millions in damges. (AP Photo/The
Columbus Republic, Mike Dickbernd)
Four
local Amish residents from the Worthington, Ind. area walk up to the
shore of the flooding on State Road 67 where it is closed Monday
afternoon just on the south side of Worthington. (AP Photo/The
Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)
A
home near the 254-acre Lake Delton in Lake Delton, Wisconsin was
damaged when flood waters breached the bank and drained the lake
Monday, June 9, 2008. Floodwater washed away three houses and
threatened dams in Wisconsin as military crews joined desperate
sandbagging operations to hold back Indiana streams surging toward
record levels. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, Steve Apps)
Pakistanis
enjoy the shallow waters off a beach in Karachi on June 8, 2008, on
'The Day of the Oceans'. The future food security of millions of people
is at risk because over-fishing, climate change and pollution are
inflicting massive damage on the world's oceans, marine scientists
warned this week. (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
A
hippo swims in the surf at Thompsons Bay, about 50km (31 miles) from
Durban, May 27, 2008. It is thought that the lone young male hippo has
wandered from its habitat in Richards Bay. (REUTERS/Rogan Ward)
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