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Photos: How water shortages lead to poverty
Residents wash their belongings near Qatar Fete Waterfall in Ethiopia in March.
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A resident fills up water containers using a hand pump in New Delhi in June 2013. With summer temperatures hovering around 45 degrees Celsius (113 F), residents struggled as the city went through a severe water shortage.
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A boy washes himself with water from a pipe in a farming area west of Amman, Jordan, in March 2010.
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People disinfect their hands with chlorinated water in August 2014 in the village of Macenta in Guinea, which was hit last year by an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
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A boy drinks water from a tap in eastern Sierra Leone in April 2012 in a new town that provides access to clean drinking water, education and training.
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A Doctors Without Borders worker washes his face with a solution of chlorine and water after removing a protective suit that he wore while taking an Ebola patient into a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia, in September 2014.
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A resident pushes his bicycle carrying plastic containers filled with potable water along a dried up rice field in eastern Java, Indonesia, in October 2014.
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