World water day – in pictures

A fisherman sails on the sea around Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Photograph: Ricardo Maldonado Rozo/EPA

A Nepalese woman collects fresh water while carrying her son on her back in Patan
Photograph: Narenda Shrestha/EPA

Two men walk under the splashing water in Kuala Lumpur's KLCC water park.
Photograph: Khairil Safwan/Demotix/Corbis

Women carry drinking water from a tank in Dhaka, Bangladesh Photograph: ABIR ABDULLAH/EPA

A school boy drinks water from a leaking pipe on the outskirts of Srinagar in Kashmir Photograph: FAROOQ KHAN/EPA

Girls carry water in Lahore, Pakistan
Photograph: Jamil Ahmed/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Water is transported by bicycle in Lahore, Pakistan. According to the World Bank, about 70% of the Pakistani population does not have access to safe drinking water
Photograph: Jamil Ahmed/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Boys carry their water tanks as they run to fill drinking water at a distribution point in Quetta, south-west Pakistan
Photograph: Iqbal Hussain/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Bottles of potable water are stacked for distribution in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The country is blessed with ample water but certain overpopulated areas still confront a dearth of adequate water supply
Photograph: M A Pushpa Kumara/EPA

Women fill containers with drinking water from a government tanker in Hyderabad Photograph: NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images

A boy carries a stainless steel pot filled with drinking water through a narrow lane in a fisherman colony in Mumbai, India Photograph: PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images

Water is collected in cans in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya
Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images

A woman fishes in Lake ILopango in the town of Joya Grande, south of San Salvador. The polluted ILopango lake is the main water source of Salvador's capital Photograph: JOSE CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images

Residents of Rio de Janeiro collect rubbish on Copacabana beach Photograph: SERGIO MORAES/REUTERS

A man exits a shop selling water in Monterey Park, California
Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

A woman bathes her child on Lake Cocibolca in Nicaragua. The lake, with an area of 3,166 square miles, is the biggest in the country Photograph: OSWALDO RIVAS/REUTERS

A fisherman casts a net over the waters of Lake Cocibolca in Nicaragua Photograph: OSWALDO RIVAS/REUTERS

Greenpeace activists kayak in front of the Juanacatlán Falls in Mexico. The waters have become heavily polluted by industry Photograph: Ulises Ruiz Basurto/EPA

A dead fish lies on the cracked earth of the drought-stricken La Sorrueda reservoir near Santa Lucia village in Gran Canaria Photograph: BORJA SUAREZ/REUTERS