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| March 18, 2013 |
World Water Day 2013
Over twenty years ago the United Nations recognized March 22 as the first World Water Day. This year's theme is water cooperation. As the following photographs show, the need for cooperation on this precious resource is great, as some enjoy plenty while others suffer drought. Collected here are images of water and its many uses as we approach the annual World Water Day. -- Lane Turner (36 photos total)

Japanese men splash about in freezing cold water during Naked Festival on February 16, 2013 in Okayama, Japan. Saidaiji Naked Festival (Hadaka Matsuri) is one of Japan's more eccentric festivals and sees some 9,000 men take part and battle to grab for pair of lucky sticks thrown by priests. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images) #

Visitors enjoy the water slide at the Tropical Islands indoor resort on February 15, 2013 in Krausnick, Germany. Located on the site of a former Soviet military air base, the resort occupies a hangar built originally to house cargo airships. The resort features exotic flora and fauna, a beach, lagoon, restaurants, water slide, evening shows, sauna, adventure park and overnight stays. The hangar is tall enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) #

Women paddle their boats at the Chebayesh marsh in Nassiriya, Iraq on February 15, 2013. The Marsh Arabs who had farmed this area for thousands of years were badly affected by a campaign mounted by the government of Saddam Hussein in the 1990s to destroy their lifestyle. The marshes were drained of water, and hundreds of thousands of Marsh Arabs were forced to flee to cities, where they lived in poverty. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters) #

Scientists with the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center monitor water quality during the high-flow release of water into the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Ariz. in Marble Canyon on November 20, 2012. Federal water managers started an experimental release to help restore the Grand Canyon's ecosystem.(Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic/Associated Press) #

Allan Buchanan, a volunteer for the non-profit Samaritans, places jugs of drinking water along an immigrant trail at the Mexican border fence on March 6, 2013 in Walker Canyon, Arizona. The Samaritans group distributes food and water along the trails with the aim of reducing immigrant deaths from dehydration during their long trek from Mexico into the United States, often through remote desert areas. (John Moore/Getty Images) #

Alice, 4, sits on her father's donkey cart as they transport barrels of water to their ranch during one of the worst droughts in the region's history in Poco Redondo, Brazil on January 12, 2013. Alice says she does not know what rain is, except that it is something good. Brazil's Northeast is suffering its worst drought in decades, threatening hydro-power supplies in an area prone to blackouts and potentially slowing economic growth in one of the country's emerging agricultural frontiers. (Lunae Parracho/Reuters)#





























