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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

Photos to make you think twice about wasting this precious resource.World Water Day March 22

Villagers carry pitchers filled with drinking water after visiting a well at Meni village in the western Indian state of Gujarat.Reuters

Slum dwellers collect drinking water from a submerged hand-pump after heavy rains in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.Reuters

A girl collects drinking water from the Dala river outside Yangon, Myanmar.Reuters

Residents crowd around the only standpipe in Mabella slum in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.Reuters

A man carries buckets filled with water on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India.Reuters

A villager walks past a caked pond in the drought-hit Shilin County of Kunming, Yunnan province, China.Reuters

A boy drinks coloured water from a pond in Bule Duba village, near the edge of Oroma and Somali regions of Ethiopia.Reuters

A man drinks water from a pump in a flooded area of Nowshera district, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.AFP

A girl collects water from a hole in the ground in the Tariq district of the Saddam city neighbourhood of Baghdad.Reuters

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

A girl carries potable water to her home in Goma.Pedro Ugarte/ AFP

A slum dweller keeps an eye open for trains as she collects drinking water from a puddle between railway tracks in Mumbai.Reuters

Ismael Adam, 2, drinks from a bowl of water at the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced people, in El-Fasher, Sudan.Reuters

A man collects water from a storage tank on the outskirts of Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province.Reuters

Women queue for drinking water from a municipal corporation water tanker in the western Indian city of AhmedabadReuters

Children push a cart with water containers along a bombed-out street in Aleppo, Syria.Reuters

A woman carries jerry cans to fill them with water from a communal tap in Yemen's capital Sanaa.Reuters

People gather to fetch water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat.Reuters

A man fills barrels with potable water from a tanker truck at Lomas de Carabayllo, a shantytown north of Lima, Peru.Reuters

Bottles tied to ropes are lowered into an almost empty well in Bhaktapur, Nepal.Reuters

A girl uses a submerged hand-pump to fetch drinking water during floods at Dhuhibala village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.Reuters

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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

A man wraps a cloth around himself after a ritual dip in the polluted Yamuna river in New Delhi.Reuters

An Indian labourer drinks water at an aluminium reprocessing unit in Dharavi, Asia's largest slums in Mumbai.Arko Datta/ Reuters

A young Rohingya girl carries water to her tent at a IDP camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar.Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images

13 January, 2016: A Kashmiri fisherman throws out his net from his boat on Dal lake during dense fog in Srinagar.Tauseef Mustafa/ AFP

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

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A girl from the war-torn Blue Nile state collects water from a muddy pond in South Sudan's Doro refugee camp.Reuters

8 January 2016: An Indian farmer stands on a cart pulled by a horse during foggy weather in Jalandhar.Shammi Mehra/ AFP

15 March, 2016: A farmer harvests broccoli in the town of al-Ansariyeh south of Sidon, Lebanon.Ali Hashisho/ Reuters

Displaced people carry water containers on their heads at Tomping camp, near South Sudan's capital Juba.James Akena/Reuters

Residents use an improvised raft to cross a sewage canal at a slum in Mumbai.Reuters

Children bathe in waste water at a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia.Reuters

A resident digs a well in Arbeen, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta,Syria.Reuters

Somalian refugees return from collecting water at the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya.Getty ImagesEND22-MARZO-2016