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Photo by Zach McCabe (@nowzach) - "Where’s your water from? 🌧 I Googled: mine's from the reservoir. Cities switched to surface water to save the underground supply while they had the chance. The Trinity aquifer – 650 ft under me – is recharged from sandy-bottomed arroyos, like this one. 🚿 " - Check out the story Zach wrote awhile back about #worldwaterday at bit.ly/SelfieSea #watercrisis #azdarya (at Texas)

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Photo by Andrew Quilty (@andrewquilty) - "Flying over Afghanistan shows how dependent its population is on water. Aside from the mountainous central and northern provinces, to look at, the country is 99 percent dessert; except, that is, for the valleys where rain and snowmelt feed rivers and decades-old-canals that turn the crops either side verdant and green in the warmer months and sustain a population – 85 percent of whom rely on agriculture for their livelihood. So it's rare to see a body of still #water like this one in Nangarhar Province - the last foot or two remaining on a sandy flood plain before it's replenished by the spring thaw in the Hindu Kush mountains to the north." #andrewquilty @washpostphoto #watercrisis #afghaniatan #azdarya (at Nangarhar Province)

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Photo by Erin Lefevre (@erinlefevrephoto) In honor of the front line horses that had to be put down after being shot by the militarized police in Standing Rock: Jerica Meditz's new horse, Shota, drinks water from a stream at the Sacred Stone Camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The Standing Rock Horse Society gave the horse to Jerica after he was kicked and injured by another horse at the camp. My favorite white Converse shoes were destroyed in the making of this photograph after being ankle deep in the mud, but it was worth it. The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1,172 mile pipeline that spans from North Dakota to Illinois under the Mississippi and Missouri River and will carry 470,000 barrels of Canadian crude oil per day. The pipeline, which violates numerous federal laws and Indian treaties, would destroy the #water supply of over 18 million people if the water becomes contaminated with oil- water that is used for drinking, agriculture, and numerous ecosystems. I am documenting the ongoing movement against the pipeline in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois.” - #standingrock #DakotaAccessPipeline #watercrisis #azdarya (at Sacred Stone Camp)

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Photo by Hazel Juco, a Michigan high school student who got suspended after posting this photo of her school’s yellowish brown #water "I was called to the office and told by one of the assistant principals that an administrator found a photo of the girl's bathroom on social media and that I'd be issued a three-day out-of-school suspension for 'inappropriate use of electronics" #watercrisis #azdarya

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6 month ago today a dam burst at an iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil, unleashing 50 million tons of highly toxic mud and mining waste killing 19 people and causing the worst environmental disaster in the country’s history. Artwork & words by @osgemeos “How much longer will we live this way? With such neglect? The prevailing corruption and abandonment in all sectors is stark, the government has no regard for nature neither for the people and now we watch another tragedy of absurd dimensions. That's enough!!! How much is human life worth?? We are heading toward the disorder and retrogression. Até quando vamos viver dessa maneira, nesse descaso?? A corrupção impera, o abandono em todos os setores é gritante, o governo não tem a menor consideração pela natureza nem pelo seu povo e agora mais uma tragédia de dimensões absurdas. Basta!!! Quanto vale a vida do ser humano?? Estamos caminhando para a desordem e retrocesso.” - 
#osgemeos #brazil #minasgerais #pollution #watercrisis #azdarya (at Mariana, Minas Gerais)

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Photo by Roger Anis (@rogeranis) #wwim13egypt “On their way to get clean water in Alwaraq Island. One of the main problems in #AlwaraqIsland is drinking water. They can not use tap water for drinking so they have to purchase clean water every day from one of the existing water purification centers in the island although that the island is located in the heart of the Nile River which is the main source of drinking #water in #Egypt.” - 
#watercrisis #LifeOnEarthWWIM13 #WWIM13 #instameet #azdarya (at Cairo, Egypt)

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Photo by Balazs Gardi (@balazsgardi) "Just after the airplane crossed over from Colorado to Utah I looked down and could hardly believe my eyes. It’s not that I haven’t seen the brutal grids of fracking well pads all over the US, but juxtaposed with the natural curves of Utah’s White River, the intensity of the destruction was mind blowing. #Fracking not only depletes local #water sources and produces toxic and sometimes radioactive fracking fluid simply known as ‘flowback’, but it also pollutes the air and can seriously sicken communities nearby. On #EarthDay2016 I recommend all of you to take a minute to read an eye-opening article I recently came across in The Nation by Bill McKibben on how badly the natural-gas infrastructure has been bleeding methane into the atmosphere. Using satellite data and ground observations, Harvard researchers concluded that the nation as a whole is leaking methane in massive quantities. Between 2002 and 2014, the data showed that US methane emissions increased by more than 30 percent, accounting for 30 to 60 percent of an enormous spike in methane in the entire planet’s atmosphere. “These leaks are big enough to wipe out a large share of the gains from the Obama administration’s work on climate change—all those closed coal mines and fuel-efficient cars. In fact, it’s even possible that America’s contribution to global warming increased during the Obama years.” #USA #Utah #fracking #pollution #watercrisis #earthday #climatechange #azdarya (at Green River, Utah)

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Photo by Jake May (@jakemayphoto) “I can’t trust them because to me they knew what was going on,” said Gerry Woodberry, 50, of losing his trust in government after the Flint water crisis. “A little shortcut to save them money, while you’re destroying people’s lives… I can’t regain my trust. I really can’t. I feel like this situation with me trying to get help, they don’t really care, they just don’t care. It’s not them that’s affected, so why should they care. That’s how I feel.” - Woodberry who deals with the effects of lichen planus, a disease that causes the body to mistakenly attack its own skin cells, said his condition has been made worse by the water situation to the point where his skin aches at times. “Before this #water changed, when I would take my showers, it would soothe my skin,” he said. “When I get out now, it’s the total opposite. It’s like I’m very irritated, like I’m very dry. It’s constantly hurting. Some days I can’t even put my socks on or my shoes.” - #watercrisis #USA #flint #climatechange #waterfront #worldwaterday #azdarya (at Flint, Michigan)

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Photo by James Whitlow Delano (@jameswhitlowdelano) “Wetlands protect the world’s coastlines and serve as nurseries for young fish. Global warming will threaten wetlands in several ways. Wetlands globally will be inundated by rising sea levels in the next century with little room to move higher because of intense human development along the coast. In fact, the wetlands of the Mekong River Delta are already experiencing salinization to the point that, in some places, it is too salty for wet-paddy rice cultivation. This will become more common as the seas rise. Warmer #water will mean more microbes, harmful algae blooms and increased incidence of marine diseases. Stronger storms will also increase the deterioration of the wetlands environment and barrier islands. Increased incidence of floods and droughts will lower the water quality in the wetland environment, as well. Restoring wetland environments result in secure coastlines and cleaner, healthier seas.

Photo: The Baram River in Sarawak, Malaysia on Borneo island has experienced tremendous change with increased silt due to hill logging in the interior. There is less oxygen in the water, leading to a drop in fish population. The denuded interior has become hotter and drier with erratic rains. The Baram wetlands are now and more prone to flood and drought. The increased silt damages mangroves and coral reefs in the South China Sea.” - #climatechange #globalwarming #borneo #malaysia #azdarya #wetlands #worldwetlandsday2016 (at Borneo Island, Malaysia)

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Photo by Sima Diab (@sima_diab) “Trash including plastics and waste water discharge from nearby residential buildings through open pipes and pour in to the Mediterranean Sea near Abu Qir, #Alexandria. 
The United Nations Environment Programme (@UNenvironment) estimates that around 650 million tons of #sewage, including tens of thousands of tons of other pollutants are dumped into the Mediterranean each year from Mediterranean countries and about 70 per cent of the #wastewater dumped into the Mediterranean is untreated.

Considering the Mediterranean is almost entirely landlocked, the water in the sea has a very low renewable rate, trapping the trash and waste. 
Open dumping of waste reduces oxygen levels in the sea, affecting fish and sea life and has an adverse effect on all living things, including the health of human beings whose livelihood is attached to the water. Already many fisherman complain of lack of fish near the Alexandrian coast line, and their need to venture further and further in to the sea to find fish.” - #egypt #pollution #watercrisis #azdarya (at Abu Qir Port)

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Photo by Jim Goldberg (@goldbergjim) “A boy walks through a polluted #river in Eastern Ukraine near Donetsk in 2006. This area was once the center of Soviet Industrialism. After the USSR’s collapse, much of the regions infrastructure lay in ruins, creating high unemployment, poverty, and a desperation to flee Ukraine.” - #ukraine #pollution #watercrisis #azdarya (at Donetsk, Ukraine)

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Photo by Michael Santiago (@msantiagophotos) "In 2014, almost 20,000 people in Detroit had their water service interrupted since March of that year. The crisis was so controversial that it sparked protest, arrests, and warnings from the U.N. Not far from Detroit Flint, M.I. faces their own crisis with their drinking #water being tainted with #lead.” - #detroit #flint #watercrisis #humanrights #azdarya

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Photo by Pablo Unzueta (@unzuetaphotos) “Pomona, California. The only access to clean #water for Jerry and Lidia is in two plastic containers that require to be filled every other week. The containers sit against the wall underneath the freeway bridge. Jerry washes his hands and face.” - #usa #watercrisis #azdarya (at Pomona, California)

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Photo by Ryan Garza (@ryangarza) “We're really concerned. We got to boil all of his #water. We've got to heat up bottled water and stuff like that to give him a bath. We're getting real irritated with that,” DeMario Stewart 27 of Flint said while feeding his son Damonei Stewart during his two month check-up at Hurley Children's Center at the Flint Farmers' Market in #Flint. Stewart uses #bottledwater to bathe his son and himself as well as brushing teeth with bottled water after Flint water was shown to have #lead in it after the city switched to using the Flint River as a water source. “Never thought I was going to have to deal with that ever. Not in Flint. I thought we was straight on our water. I don't want my son to grow up in this. I'll never trust Flint water again.” #usa #michigan #watercrisis #publichealthemergency #azdarya (at Flint, Michigan)

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Photo by Solmaz Daryani (@solmazdaryani) Solmaz Daryani’s grandmother, Narges Ghasempour, in a shallow pond that is a remnant of Lake Urmia. She walks almost 3km from the former beach to the pond several times each summer to bathe in the natural salt water. Sharafkhaneh port, East Azerbaijan province, Iran; August 2015. Check out the profile link for the full story #Iran #LakeUrmia #watercrisis #Azdarya (at Lake Urmia)

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Photo by Solmaz Daryani (@solmazdaryani) Sheikh Wali coastal village, located in the northeast of Lake Urmia. Sheikh Wali used to be one of the very popular tourist villages. The beach has been deserted for more than ten years. According to environmentalists, if the lake is not restored, salt storms will threaten the lives of the people living in the surrounding towns and villages. Sheikh Wali village, East Azerbaijan province, Iran; May 2015. Check out the profile link for the full story #Iran #LakeUrmia #watercrisis #Azdarya (at Lake Urmia)

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Photo by Solmaz Daryani (@solmazdaryani) View of a pier on Lake Urmia. Up until ten years ago, when Lake Umria receded too drastically, Solmaz Daryani’s uncle had a food booth on the pier, and every Thursday the whole family met there to eat dinner by the water. To keep the memories of those gatherings alive, his mother (Solmaz Daryani’s grandmother Narges Ghasempour) still makes a point of walking to the pier every time she goes to the coast – in the summer as often as every week. Sharafkhaneh port, East Azerbaijan province, Iran; April 2014. Check out the profile link for the full story #Iran #LakeUrmia #watercrisis #Azdarya (at Lake Urmia)