World Water Day: National Geographic Photos

Monday March 22nd is World Water Day, and to highlight the incredibly important issue of water (and lackthereof) has on the planet, we're partnering with our friends at National Geographic to bring you stunning water images and informative coverage on the world's most precious resource. You can read all about water in National Geographic's special April water issue, which will hit newsstands next week. Check out their fantastic interactive water feature here.

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Photograph by Scottyboipdx Weber The sun sets over Lower Lewis River Falls in Washington State’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The falls mark a wild and scenic stretch of the river, but other sections of the Lewis, which drains the state’s mighty Cascade Range, boast large dam and reservoir systems.Hydroelectric plants produce power, but they’ve changed the river’s natural character—to the special detriment of migratory fish like salmon. Utilities have agreed to begin trucking fish around the dams along the Lewis River, moving them from below these looming barriers to prime habitat upstream, above the dams. See more photos and videos at www.nationalgeographic.com/freshwater.

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Photograph by Scottyboipdx Weber
The sun sets over Lower Lewis River Falls in Washington State’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The falls mark a wild and scenic stretch of the river, but other sections of the Lewis, which drains the state’s mighty Cascade Range, boast large dam and reservoir systems.Hydroelectric plants produce power, but they’ve changed the river’s natural character—to the special detriment of migratory fish like salmon. Utilities have agreed to begin trucking fish around the dams along the Lewis River, moving them from below these looming barriers to prime habitat upstream, above the dams.
See more photos and videos at www.nationalgeographic.com/freshwater.

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[Michal Avraham]

07:05 AM on 03/25/2010

Michal Avraham Join our blogathon (March 26-27) to raise money for Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Our goal: To teach as many people as possible how to live sustainably. The diversity of life on earth is in peril. We cannot shirk our responsibility and hope that others will do this work for us. It will take ALL of us working together to build a viable future on this planet.

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[Badger84]

12:18 AM on 03/23/2010

We need to use this precious resource more wisely. When I visit the arid west, I am amazed that it's diverted to develop golf courses in the middle of the desert for the affluent.

[LynnHasselberger]

08:38 PM on 03/22/2010

BEYOND stunning! I could stare at these all day.

Happy World Water Day! If anyone's interested, here's my story about what my third grader and I did in honor of the day... http://icountformyearth.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/our-water-day/

[Jackie Apel]

06:53 PM on 03/22/2010

Beautiful photos - but I can't seem to get my top 5 to show up from the link I created and published on Facebook - it just takes you back to the application again.

[Andrew Sansone]

06:25 PM on 03/22/2010

Nice to see World Water Day popular in a big way on Twitter today http://bit.ly/bms1Sn

[david5000]

05:33 PM on 03/22/2010

In all the Gulf states, their only source of water is the sea, they remove the salt from the water and it's very clean without any contaminants

And since the earth is mostly water, we will never run out.

However it will be a sin to contaminate all fresh precious drinking water as it taste nature itself.

[Ljilja]

04:10 PM on 03/22/2010

How beautiful our world is! Let us take good care of it.

http://graciouslivingdaybyday.com/

[hellboundtrain]

03:11 PM on 03/22/2010

Clean, drinkable water is a precious finite resource. The sooner we act as though we understand that our future progeny relies on having this, so that they, too, may raise their families and live out their lives and plan for their own future generations, then the sooner we will stop polluting with all manner of industrial chemicals. There needs to be an alternative to fracking, or the chemicals involved must be benign to life!

[rougebaisers]

03:02 PM on 03/22/2010

One of the richest resources in this century.

[LeftAlone]

03:00 PM on 03/22/2010

the earth is reclaiming itself from the humans who have abused it.

it will decide how many are allowed to live.

it wont be pretty.

[rougebaisers]

03:02 PM on 03/22/2010

No, it won't.

[asiclilpup]

02:44 PM on 03/22/2010

A few years ago I found myself reaching for National Geographic and bypassing playboy. It's great to look at the pics and not lie about reading the articles. Nature truly takes my breath away.

[KIVPossum]

05:52 AM on 03/23/2010

I was raised in a family where both were always available to read. When the parents died and we closed up the house, there were 56 years of Nat'l Geographic on shelves in the library, and some hit or miss issues going back to the 30s when our parents first started reading it themselves.

[robjh1]

01:14 PM on 03/22/2010

Nature is wonderful and beautiful!

[sheila]

12:41 PM on 03/22/2010

Anyone who cares about water scarcity better get on the ball and start objecting to Concentrating Solar Thermal plants that will be destroying our desert ecosystems very soon!

Thermo-electric power consumes a full 49% of the US' water usage every year. That's as much as ALL industrial, recreational, agricultural and personal use COMBINED. So, in a desert environment, where water is already in extremely scarce supply and where the ecosystems depend on EVERY DROP, why on earth would people support massive industrial thermo-electric power production owned by Chevron, BP, Goldman Sachs and friends, even if it is being greenwashed by sellouts like RFK, Jr. who stand to make million$ from it???

Point of use solutions like rooftop solar - IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT - which don't use BILLIONS of gallons of water each year, don't slaughter entire ecosystems and don't cost us a fortune are the future - we need to STOP THESE BOONDOGGLES NOW!

[Mainbob]

02:59 PM on 03/22/2010

Yes, stop the CSP's that use water
AND
Check wikipedia...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_Solar_Power there are designs that don't use water... to produce electricity.

[rigormrtis]

11:54 AM on 03/22/2010

I've mountain biked along the Lewis river. gorgeous.

[mbondr1]

11:39 AM on 03/22/2010

Let's see . . . that one's owned by Vivendi, and that one by Suez. That one's owned by the Bush family, and that one is owned by United Water. That one is owned by Saur and that one is owned by . . .

Don't drink it, private property.