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Water, Water, Everywhere
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. (17 photos total)
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)
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)
A fawn struggles against the fast flowing White River as it tries to walk along the levee on Monday, June 9, 2008 in Edwardsport, Ind. The fawn was swept off the levee, but managed to swim to a bank and make its way from the water. (AP Photo/Vincennes Sun-Commercial, Kevin J. Kilmer)
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)
More links and information:
DWP drops 400,000 balls onto Ivanhoe Reservoir - latimes.com 6/10
China Drains Lake Into Ruined Town - nytimes.com 6/10
China tries to keep earthquake-formed lake under control boston.com 6/10
Water - NY Times topic page
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Awesome photos. Thank you.
the best part of water is drinking it
excelente calidad. Congratulations!
This is just fantastic. Thank you for NOT using Flash or AJAX so that we may view these well-captioned images.
The Amish picture looks like a Hollywood Action movie. The Amish are cleaning up the town! Also, I think all those black balls in the reservoir look like they would be fun to steal. OR...try to swim across.
The current rate of climate change makes it almost certain that we'll be seeing much more water-related destruction over the next several decades at least.
Thank you for posting this. Now I can be enraged that LA is doing something this ridiculous. So they have tons of bromine and chlorine in the water. Instead of addressing that problem, they've paid someone $$$$ to furnish tons of plastic black balls, which can leach plastic components into the water. Does this even work? Did anyone test to see if this would prevent the production of carcinogens, or how much? Bromine, chlorine, and fluorine are terrible for the human body. We need to ingest lots of inorganic iodine to get rid of that crud.
I am compelled to write something very profound but, all I can say is, 'Wow!' This is such a great site. Thank you for the time and energy you have invested in these posts.
Amazing photos sent out to friends
I was sent this by a friend, and I am extremely impressed. This site will go in my 'Favorites'.....Thank You
Wow, very touching compilation of images there. Absolutely amazing.
JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
sit on the camel and they will doesnt get wet. hello? THINK PEOPLE!!! alot of water for the dessert
OMG, what have we done? What have we done?
this is so sad. i actaully never looked at it in this way at what the water is actaully doing to us. when i think about it, the water will be in my home town some day, and yours too, but maybe when we're not alive, but to our home town. sad'ning.
Man I love this blog.
Merveilleuses photos!
J'imagine que la popularité du site va se répandre en feu de brousse !!!
The world must act as one to correct the environmental mistakes of the past.
I am so grateful to this website! Keep up the good work. It is very well done!
Absolutely incredible photos - thank you for reminding us that water is life and life must protect water.
Jimboland Jots
Australia is having a water crysis and I now see where our water has gone.
Very thought provoking!
What an awesome blog.
Good work, this is great, I can only hope other places follow suit. What breath of fresh air being able to fill my screen instead of squinting!
I think you could post each image individually in the rss for maximum awesome, instead of just the aggregate post, but I'll live either way.
Pretty amazing. I live in Terre Haute, Indiana, near Worthington and Columbus. Shame there aren't any good photos from here on it. Several years ago, there was huge development in a low lying former wetland area here. Guess what? Those stores were full of water.
Hello again. Great post as usual. I like that you were able to bounce around the globe and maintain a common theme, while also keeping it tied to recent (within the past week?) headlines. Nicely done.
i do however have the same question as yesterday, and still wonder how it is you wind up with such fantastic imagery. Is this one of the benefits of working for the Boston Globe (meaning that these images just land in your lap)? Or do you have to track down each image and purchase individual licenses?
Either way, keep it up. You're fan base is growing.
This took my breath away, and for a couple of minutes, I felt as if I was in another world, I felt free, I felt as if time stood still. Thank you
Great photos. I salute to the photogs of these photos. very professional.
Great collection
awesome picture.........
Interesting Pics..Thank you .
oh my god!
wow! this pics. are really great! thanx for sharing!
It goes to show that there should be a more mobile definition of "military" one that helps its people not necessarily by killing others "the state" thinks has to be. Where is the research on the nuclear accident reported elsewhere that happened with this earthquake?
great photos
Awesome pics... truly amazing !
By the year 2040, it is said that due to over-fishing, there won't be any edible seafood left in our oceans. F*cking Scary.
If one picture is worth a thousand words... what of seventeen. Sometimes we get it and sometimes we don't. No matter what we do... Nature usually wins but it is not an excuse not to try.
Wow! amazing photos. Some of them I have seen but others never. Thank you for sharing. Opal
It's all George Bush's fault!!!! He made this happen with Global Warming and all.
Obama 08
How many 4" black plastic balls would it take to cover Lake Mead?
These are simply amazing photos--they blow me away!
Amazing photos again!
Alex
http://www.recentnews.co.uk
To Sandy (comment #9), Do you really believe ONE person is at fault for Global Warming ? ! It's a world wide problem caused by millions of self absorbed people using products that damage and/or destroy our environment. Go Green !
Re: the photos and the time to complie this great blog WOW ! thanks for impressive and timely information/photos
amazing photos for a quick view (or review) from the news
the same idea to
http://www.extraphotonews.com/
give us more of this we may be not aware it happened
what have we done? we sit in our perfect little safe homes just watching this happen...
What is in the water?
Researchers use new techniques to discover more dangers associated with exposing yourself and the environment to treated sewage effluent.
http://stopsnowbowl.com/blog/?p=22
Thought balloon over the hippo's head:
"I'm not coming out of the water while you are standing there with a camera - the top of my bathing suit fell off!"
esta brutal....
I have never thought that documentary journalism can be so persuading and touching even without a spoken word. Thank you very much Bigpicture for making me see.
Why BLACK balls, instead of white ones to REFLECT the sunlight?!? And yeah, they really need to be addressing the problem at the source, instead of putting in MORE crap.
These fascinating pictures have made it all the way to my house in Las Vegas, NV. Good job, thanks.
It's amazing how many people comment that "global warming" is causing all of this????they really should do their homework before making such comments. The pictures are great photography,,,,and so heart renching. Thank you for sharing them!
It would seem that, apart from the possibility of plastic leeching into the water in LA, the efficacy of the chosen color for the balls is questionable. Black balls would absorb heat which would accelerate the release of gases into the atmosphere (outgasing). White balls, on the other hand, would serve to reflect the heat. As you should be aware, hot water in your shower or bath releases chlorine as a gas, a known carcinogen, into the air in your bathroom. It is always advisable to use whole house filters to filter out the chlorine before it gets into your lungs.
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These photos are really cool, but are not a good thing.
What a great set of photo's. Well done!
ˇˇˇˇˇexcelllent photos!!!!!!
congratulations...
ain't global warming. ain't george bush's fault. nobody's fault. our earth is always in a state of flux...some times more dramatic than others. but, pay attention, folks. it's a wake up call for us all. do our best to help out when & where we can, count our blessings, and love while we have the opportunity to show it!
The End times????
Pictures the World needs to see!
A Great Set of Pictures.
I love the hippo picture!! He cracked me up!!
all of them are beautiful though.
i love them, great, i will add this to my rss reader
The transitions between each picture in this set really impressed me.
1. The transition from people washing their clothes to the vehicles in the water
2. The transition from fawn in peril to the steady camel in safe waters
Artfully done and so expressive.
As a travelling surfer I thought I'd seen or heard just about every ocean encounter story out there. But a hippo? I'll be sure to avoid Thompsons Bay...
Amazing blog/photos.
Nona (#69) is right on.....our earth is ALWAYS in a state of flux. When I was a child in school (late 1960's, early 1970's), the warning cry from scientists and environmentalists was that we were headed for another ICE AGE!
What caused the dinosaurs to die out? What caused the ice age to disappear? This planet has survived wide ranges of temperatures/weather, along with a wide variety of life forms that have managed to adapt. Who is to say that the earth is not entering another "Age"? And who are we who are going to prevent it from happening? Mother Nature mocks us and our puny efforts to control her.
Does one day we will see even so much water?
Great photo's, everyone blames global warming on CO2 emissions but has anyone considered that we are changing the axis of the earth buy digging minerals up from one side of the world and shipping them to the other side for buildings, motor vehicles ect. How much does New York weigh in relation to the trees that were there a couple of hundred years ago? Stick a few extra balance weights on your car wheels and see how much it upsets the balance, the world is no different.
Wow the whole house broke in half!!!!
i make those black balls,we call them bird balls.
they are made in wilson north carolina.
I was referred to this big picture blog by a French Photosite and must say I am overwhelmed by the quality of the concept
There is so much going on the world at the moment
The organization and the quality of the Photographs are unsurpassed in any other news oriented media ( paper or webbased)
The Boston Globe is to be congratulated by this new approach that sets a new standard
A agua é o melhor presente que Deus nos deu!
Great photo site. I have been waiting for something like this. Very current and straight forward.
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Please delete comment #15 by 'David'.
He has written a very crude and derogatory remark in Persian.
Thanks.
stunning !! keep going ...
Lindas. Grande sensibiidade artistica.
i love you folks
Does anyone see a trend here that Mother Nature is angry with us?! Things just don't feel right...
Great Photos
What an incredible collection of images. This is definitely a bookmark of mine.
LouC
http://www.igreenify.com
We drove through Columbus, Indiana on June 5th. So thankful it wasn't on the 8th.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to ALL of the people dealing with these tragedies.
Posted by Dee on June 24, 08 9:37 PM
This blog is unbelievable awesome job well done!!!
bitchen footage
This collection of photos needs no comment...
I looked at them all in absolute silence...
Wonder why when it comes to profit-making some people just turn a blind eye to well-documented proof of their own shortcomings regarding the global influence of their choices....
I'm in awe, speechless, and profoudly awakened, both artistically and realistically! Bravo....this site will be added to my favorites folder!.
Great photo's. Rather silly comments.
Wow. I was actually directed here by an email sent to me from a radio station I listen to. These pictures are amazing, utterly breathtaking, and show a wonderfully wide scope. I would like to applaud to photographers, and the editor of this site. However, some comments posted in response to this art work are just plain rude, and I (and surely others too) would greatly appreciate it if they were removed. Thank you so very much for sharing these wonderful still-lives!
Beautiful and more importantly REAL!!!
Amazingly horrifying pictures and information! I was too stunned to go through the pictures.
I ioved all the pictures they made me feel like you were actualy there.
excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
touched to heart
thanks
Wow these images were amazing, picture perfect. So real and so breath taking. Water is great, but who knew that it could have the ability to destroy, and do things like this? I am in amazement, wonderful pictures, they go perfectly with my topic, thanks for posting!
amazing water
that is so sad and even really harmful
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Interesante reportaje. Soy de un sitio donde el agua es un bien que escasea, pese a tener la más famosa huerta de Espańa, y la mejor producción. La famosa huerta de Valencia.
Nature is AWESOME
poor fawn!
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Absolutely amazing pics.
aAaAwWw poor hippo did u know they cant swimm they flowt
These are awsome pictures. Im in school right now! hmm..and bored