A sign advising to pray for rain hangs above an exhibit area at the 47th Annual World Ag Expo in Tulare, February 12, 2014. About a hundred years ago, when urban water systems were being developed throughout the state, the city of Sacramento wrote protections from metering into its charter, vowing that residents would always have the right to use as much water as they needed. But on Tuesday, the state's top water regulators released a framework for enforcing California's first statewide mandatory restrictions on urban water use – cuts of 25 percent for non-agricultural users ordered last week by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown as a devastating drought enters its fourth year. (Photo by David McNew/Reuters)

Human wax figures to build scenes depicting traditional life in a new museum are seen in Basra, Iraq on June 12, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Aty/Reuters)

View of an oil-stained bird on the shore of a contaminated lake in Maracaibo, Venezuela on June 22, 2023. The Azul Ambientalistas foundation denounced on 22 June the “state of emergency” in which the Maracaibo Lake, the largest in Venezuela, finds itself, due to oil spills that, it assured, are affecting the lake economy and the health of the people. (Photo by Henry Chirinos/EPA)

US television personality Bethenny Frankel arrives for FX's “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, on January 23, 2024. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP Photo)

Revellers brave the rain as they make the most of New Year's Eve in Liverpool city centre, United Kingdom on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Ioannis Alexopoulos/London News Pictures)

American model Olivia Culpo in the second decade of March 2024 is in “vacation mode”. (Photo by oliviaculpo/Instagram)

A fox pounces on a mouse in the snowy hills on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. (Photo by Johnny Krüger/Mediadrumimages)

Moroccan-born pole dancer Karima El Mahroug, nicknamed “Ruby the Heart Stealer” attends the traditional Vienna Opera Ball at the state opera on March 3, 2011 in Vienna, Austria. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)