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(1) From my tap to yours. "Lake Havasu (119 yesterday) at the Metropolitan Water District pumps (water from Colorado River to Southern CA water agencies)."
(2) Castello Saint George. "This fountain was built by the Romans two thousand years ago. It is located in the remains of a fort that the Romans built on a hill about 1,000 feet above the Taugus River. It allowed them to see enemies sailing up the Taugus long before the arrived in Lisbon. The fountain still delivers cool, drinkable water 24 hours a day. An amazing feat of engineering."
(3) Maasai at the well. "I had the privilege to travel within Kenya 2 years ago. This is in Amboseli National Park. Water that melts from Kilimanjaro's snow and glaciers feeds the swamps in the Park that attracts wildlife and a tourism-based economy critical to the locals, who also depend on the extraction of groundwater. Here, a Maasai group uses a pump to extract groundwater to feed cattle and for domestic use. In Amboseli, as in everywhere else, water plays a critical link between ecosystems and local communities."
(4) Thirsty Bees. "The honeybee photo is special to me because we were in the Valley of Fire SP outside Las Vegas, and had just spent a night in the park where the low temp at night was 96. The low. Anyway, so damn hot, and so little water available in the area, that these dessicated bees were swarming around the tiny trickle of water coming out of the fountain."
(5) Havasu View. "This is a panoramic shot of Lake Havasu [click to see larger version] from one of the local mountains... I used the Autostitch software to make the one photo. It is of the Lake, South of Lake Havasu City. In this one photo you can see several things. On the extreme Left (upriver) you can see part of Lake Havasu City some eighteen miles distant. Panning down you can see MWD's water intake from the river. Further down, you can see where the Bill Williams river enters the Colorado. If you knew the layout good enough, you could see where CAP takes its water from the river. Although hidden behind a hill, Parker Dam is also within the photo's area. To the Right, you can see MWD's second pumping plant (the Gene Plant). What makes the photo unique? It shows a dandy view of the last sizable reservoir on the Colorado. It also shows where millions of people 'tap' into the Colorado for their water."
(6) "Human pipes" of Goma. "I took the attached picture in Goma on the north shore of lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda. The picture is important to me because of the banality of the scene, at least to the kids; they do this every day. But to me it's shocking - young bodies stacked up with so much weight and so far to walk (kilometers probably). It's a cliche that what we take for granted is so hard for others to get, but I would see this scene almost anytime I was on the street. It's more than a cliche to me now. I think without thoughtful management and conservation, those of us lucky enough to have advanced water systems will find life increasingly difficult as water becomes more scarce in the future."
(7) Corps of Engineers Forever!. "This one is from the dam at Lake Carlyle in Illinois. It's a joke between my friend and I, both having read Cadillac Desert."
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