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AT A GLANCE

Live everyday with the 3Cs : Cheerfulness, Contentment & Care for Others

 

 

SOUTH KOREA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A boy on a stepping-stone touches water in Cheonggye stream in Seoul, March 21, 2010.

The Cheonggye stream is itself a restoration of a stream that used to run through the city

some 50 years ago before it was covered up with concrete as part of

South Korea's 1960s head-long rush into development in the 1960s and the 1970s

The United Nations General Assembly observes International World Water Day on March 22

 

SOUTH KOREA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A girl crosses Cheonggye stream on stepping-stones in central Seoul March 21, 2010

 

WORLD WATER DAY : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A fisherman's net contains fish that he caught in a polluted canal in Beijing, March 21, 2010.

The Earth is literally covered in water, but more than a billion people lack access to clean water

for drinking or sanitation as most water is salty or dirty. Monday, March 22 is World Water Day

 

CHINA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

Workers standing in a boat remove rubbish from a polluted canal in Beijing, March 21, 2010

 

CHINA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A resident washes clothes in a polluted pond in Xiangfan, Hubei province, China, March 21, 2010

 

CHINA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A woman uses a sledgehammer to break up bricks on the banks of the dried-up Yongding River

located on the outskirts of Beijing, Sunday, March 21, 2010.

No water has flowed down the river for many years as a result of the

Ever-increasing demands for water from China's capital city.

 

CHINA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

Two men ride horses on the dried-up riverbed of the Yongding River

located on the outskirts of Beijing, March 21, 2010

 

CHINA : Saturday, 20-March-2010

A resident cleans a bucket to carry washed clothing in a river

on the outskirts of Yingtan, Jiangxi province, March 20, 2010

 

A dead fish is seen floating in a polluted river on the outskirts of

Yingtan, Jiangxi province, Saturday, March 20, 2010

 

Dead fish are seen floating on a polluted river in Hefei, Anhui province, Friday, March 19, 2010

 

INDONESIA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

Boys sit in front of a polluted canal in Jakarta, March 21, 2010

 

INDONESIA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A boy plays in a polluted river in Jakarta, March 21, 2010

 

INDONESIA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

Residents bathe and wash clothes in the Ciliwung river in Jakarta, March 21, 2010

 

INDIA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

Pushpa Rani, 75, (R), who for the past three years distributes water in her village,

fills buckets from a hose in Tung Pai near Amritsar on March 21, 2010, eve of World Water Day.

'To feed 17% of the world's population we have only 4% of the world's water resources,'

warned Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal earlier this year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritsar

 

INDIA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A boy swims in the polluted Yamuna river in New Delhi, March 21, 2010

 

INDIA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A Hindu devotee wraps his cloth after a ritual dip in the polluted

Yamuna river in New Delhi, March 21, 2010.

The Earth is literally covered in water,

but more than a billion people lack access to clean water for drinking or sanitation

as most water is salty or dirty. March 22 is World Water Day

 

THE PHILIPPINES : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A boy collects plastic from a garbage-covered river in Manila, March 21, 2010.

The Earth is literally covered in water, but more than a billion people lack access to clean water

for drinking or sanitation as most water is salty or dirty. March 22 is World Water Day

 

MANILA BAY, THE PHILIPPINES : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A boy swims in the murky waters of Manila Bay on March 21, 2010

 

MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES : Sunday, 21-March-2010

Workers collect garbage as they clean a river in Manila, March 21, 2010

 

MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A man fills containers at a water station at a slum district in Manila, March 21, 2010

 

CAMBODIA : Sunday, 21-March-2010

A Cambodian villager drives his ox-cart to collect water from a pond near Chriev village,

Kandal province, about 24 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, Sunday, March 21.

 

BERLIN, GERMANY : Friday, 19-March-2010

4.000 bottles of mineral water placed on the sidewalk by activists

from the animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

form the words: '1 Steak' at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, Friday, March 19, 2010.

The installation aims to highlight the amount of water it takes (4.000 liters according to PETA)

to produce one steak, urging people to go vegetarian,

ahead of world water day on March 22, 2010  

 

PARIS, FRANCE : Friday, 19-March-2010

People display signs with the men's and women's toilet symbol at various queues

outside the oldest public toilets in Paris as part of a protest during World Water Day events.

As part of World Water Day, Toilet Queues are organised worldwide

to highlight the need to solve the global sanitation crisis

 

PARIS, FRANCE : Friday, 19-March-2010

Several hundred people holds signs which read :

"To Live without Toilets = Danger of Death for 2.5 Million People",

as they queue outside the oldest public toilets in Paris as part of a protest

during World Water Day events in the French capital, Friday, March 19, 2010

 

PARIS, FRANCE : Friday, 19-March-2010

Dozens of demonstrators participate in a waiting line in front of the oldest public toilets

in Paris, place de la Madeleine, on Friday, March 19, 2010.

'Living without toilets' constitutes a 'mortal risk',  according to the NGO,

ACF (Action against hunger) that organised a flash mob to attract attention to

the lack of toilets in the world, causing insanitary environment for over 2.5 billion people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thant Zin Aung

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