People wearing loin cloths pray after they bathe in ice-cold water outside the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 8, 2017. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Carey Williams leaps into the icy waters of the Snake River for the 2022 Polar Plunge at the Hells Gate Marina on Saturday, January 1, 2022, in Clarkston, Wash. (Photo by August Frank/Lewiston Tribune via AP Photo)
A girl carries bottles of water filled from a charity tank at a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) near Sanaa, Yemen on March 25, 2022. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
Volunteers distribute water to a woman carrying a child along a street during a hot summer day in Karachi on May 14, 2022. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)
Men rest on a boat in the overflowed Ganges River under the Shastri Bridge in Allahabad on August 17, 2022, as water levels of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers rose following monsoon rainfalls. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)
A man wades through flood waters carrying his grand daughter on his back following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Charsadda, Pakistan on August 28, 2022. (Photo by Fayaz AzizAziz/Reuters)
Lea Meyer of Germany falls at the water in the women's 3000m Steeplechase heats at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, USA, 16 July 2022. (Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA/EFE)
A giraffe appears almost to be doing the splits as it bends to drink at a watering hole on a reserve in Mkuze, South Africa in September 2023. (Photo by Peter Batty/Solent News)