A Kashmiri woman fills a pot with water after collecting it from a river in Pattan, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 22 March 2016. World Water Day is observed on 22 March every year. World Water Day is an international observance and an opportunity to learn more about water related issues, be inspired to tell others and take action to make a difference. World Water Day dates back to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development where an international observance for water was recommended. The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day. It has been held annually since then. Each year, UN-Water – the entity that coordinates the UN’s work on water and sanitation – sets a theme for World Water Day corresponding to a current or future challenge. The engagement campaign is coordinated by one or several of the UN-Water Members with a related mandate. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA)





Residents fill containers with drinking water from a municipal water tanker at a slum in Kolkata, India, March 22, 2016. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A Kashmiri woman looks for scrap wood in a polluted canal near Srinagar in the Kashmir region of India, March 22, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





Andre Louis Jean carries two buckets of water at a fountain in the outskirts of Kenscoff, Haiti, February 23, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





A woman does the laundry at a water source in the outskirts of Kenscoff, Haiti, February 23, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





Andre Louis Jean (R) and Jemen David wait for a tap-tap to transport about 200L of water in cotainers in the outskirts of Kenscoff, Haiti, February 23, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





A boy fills a container at a water source in the outskirts of Kenscoff, Haiti, February 23, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





Haitians fill containers at a water kiosk in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 8, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





Haitians fill containers with water as others take a bath with water from a pipe in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 3, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





A man takes a bath in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 3, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





Haitians fill trucks with water in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 8, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





A street vendor carries water bags for sale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 2, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





Two girls fill containers with water at a water source in Furcy, Haiti, February 23, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





Haitians fill containers with water at a fountain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 2, 2016. March 22 marks World Water Day. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)





A picture made available 22 March 2016 shows migrant fishermen from Myanmar on a Thai fishing boat unloading fish at a jetty in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, 11 March 2016. The theme of World Water Day 2016, observed on 22 March, is “better water, better jobs”, and focuses on informing people about the role that clean and abundant water sources has on the lives of people that work in water related industries. South East Asia's fishing industry faces issues of over-fishing and forced and illegal labor on fishing boats. (Photo by Diego Azubel/EPA)





A water man or locally called as “bhari” fills drinking water from a roadside hand pump while another waits to deliver in houses in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. A report says India has the world's highest number of people without access to clean water. The international charity Water Aid says 75.8 million Indians or 5 percent of the country's 1.25 billion population are forced to either buy water at high rates or use supplies that are contaminated with sewage or chemicals. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Residents of an area gather around a roadside water source to wash their clothes and fill drinking water for their houses in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





An Indian supporter of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organisation bathes publicly in a bathtub at a roadside during a protest held to coincide with the forthcoming World Water Day in New Delhi on March 21, 2016. Peta India is urging people to save water by becoming vegan, because of the amount of water used to produce meat and dairy products. (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP Photo)





Papouch (34) sells water on the streets of Port-au-Prince, March 21, 2016. He works every day from 8 am until 6 pm selling four full bags, equivalent to 240 sachets of water. The usual price of these water bags is three bags per 5 gourdes(one USD = 62 gourdes). World Water Day, marked on March 22, 2016, is an international observance to learn more about water related issues and to take action for sustainable management of freshwater resources. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Beloni (34) gives a bath to his son, 6, on a small street in the neighborhood of Cite Vincent, on March 21, 2016 in the commune of Cite Soleil in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. World Water Day, marked on March 22, 2016, is an international observance to learn more about water related issues and to take action for sustainable management of freshwater resources. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Indian school children take part in an awareness rally held to mark World Water Day in Hyderabad on March 22, 2016. The United Nations World Water Day is marked anually on March 22 and in 2016 focuses on the positive impact water quantity and quality can have on workers' lives and livelihoods, and societies and economies. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





A courier riding an electric tricycle with barrels of water leaves a shop selling bottled water in an alley in Beijing on March 22, 2016. Environmental watchdog Greenpeace warned on March 22 the world's coal plants are “deepening” the global water crisis as the water consumed by them can meet the basic needs of one billion people. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Pakistani girls fill water pots from a hand pump at a slum area of Lahore on March 21, 2016, on the eve of World Water Day. International World Water Day is held annually on March 22 to focus global attention on the importance of water and advocating for the sustainable management of our water resources. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)





A man on a makeshift raft searches for discarded plastic bottles over a polluted river in Manila on March 22, 2016. Coal plants are draining an already dwindling global water supply, Greenpeace warned March 22, consuming enough to meet the basic needs of one billion people and deepening a worldwide crisis. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





A Cambodian woman kisses her two-month-old grandchild as her husband looks on while the baby receives the morning's sun at Mekong River bank in Tuol Yeimar village, near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Cambodia's Foreign Ministry recently welcomed the decision of China to discharge water from Jinghong Hydropower station in Yunnan province to downstream Mekong River for emergency use from March 15 to April 10, 2016, according to the ministry. (Photo by Heng Sinith/AP Photo)





Protesters stand in a fountain holding signs reading “World Water Day. Defend Public Water. No To Water Service Cuts” on the United Nations World Water Day, in Bilbao March 22, 2016. (Photo by Vincent West/Reuters)