How water shortages lead to poverty

Photos: How water shortages lead to poverty
Residents wash their belongings near Qatar Fete Waterfall in Ethiopia in March.
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Photos: How water shortages lead to poverty
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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Photos: How water shortages lead to poverty
A boy washes himself with water from a pipe in a farming area west of Amman, Jordan, in March 2010.
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Photos: How water shortages lead to poverty
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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