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By Alissa Walker | 03-24-2010 | 10:47 AM
Paolo Pellegrin, Magnum Photos
John Stanmeyer, VII
Jack Dykinga, National Geographic Magazine
John Stanmeyer, VII, National Geographic Magazine
Joel Sartore, National Geographic Magazine
Lynn Johnson, National Geographic Magazine
Zena Holloway, Getty Images
Amit Dave, Reuters
Edward Burtynsky
Jonas Bendiksen, Magnum Photos
Theo Allofs, Corbis
A new exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles uses the work of National Geographic photographers to show the value of water.
Here, girls from a West Bank village cool off in the briny waters of the Dead Sea, the world’s deepest saltwater lake. Naturally buoyant waters make it a favorite of bathers, yet levels are dropping more than three feet a year.
Here, girls from a West Bank village cool off in the briny waters of the Dead Sea, the world’s deepest saltwater lake. Naturally buoyant waters make it a favorite of bathers, yet levels are dropping more than three feet a year.
The Maya believed natural wells, such as the Xkeken cenote in Mexico’s Yucatán, led to the underworld.
To effectively transport water, farmers in the arid Southwest have long shared community-operated waterways. This acequia is the 150-year-old People’s Ditch in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
India’s holiest river, the Ganges, is scribbled with light from floating oil lamps during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Haridwar. Hindus near death often bathe in the river; some are later cremated beside it and have their ashes scattered in its depths.
Freshwater species like this Reimann’s snake-necked turtle, a New Guinea native, are under siege all over the planet, disappearing faster than their land or sea counterparts.
In Shekana, Ethiopia, Halike Berisha must fill her jug from a contaminated reservoir. Access to clean water is not solely a rural problem, but the challenges of delivering it are most daunting in remote places.
An underwater portrait captures the buoyancy of babies, who are three-fourths water. That fraction becomes two-thirds as we age, yet our vital fluids remain saline.
Parched Indian villagers mob a vast well in Natwargadh, Gujarat. In this drought-prone western state, yearly monsoon rains can total less than eight inches, and summer temperatures have topped 115°F.
As developments such as Discovery Bay increase in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, so does the flood hazard. More than a million people now live behind delta levees, which are susceptible to increasingly severe coastal storms.
The snowy peaks of the Himalaya are part of a freshwater cache that courses down to a vast populace of two billion people.
Brown with sediment loosed by seasonal rains, Australia’s King River snakes through the coastal mudflats of the Kimberley, a remote northwestern region. In the dry months of May to September, the 76-mile meander lies bare.
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