World Water Day: Protect it, treat it, keep it clean!

India: Kashmiri fishermen row their boats on their way home after working in Dal Lake in Srinagar. Dal Lake, famous for its natural beauty and a popular destination has shrunk in the past two decades. According to local reports, it has decreased by more than half to 11 square kilometers (4.2 square miles) and lost 12 meters (36 feet) in depth. (Source: AP)

Ships travel along the Mississippi River in New Orleans. At about 2,300 miles long, the Mississippi is the chief river of the largest drainage system of North America. In addition to its use for heavy industry and agriculture, over 18 million people rely on the river for fresh drinking water. (Source: AP)

A rainbow forms over tourists visiting Iguazu Falls in Foz do Iguazu, Brazil. The waterfalls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil, are part of the Guarani Aquifer, one of the world's major underground reserves of fresh water. (Source: AP)

A boy returns home carrying a 20-liter container of fresh water, which cost 5 Kenyan shillings (5.5 U.S. cents) to fill from a private tap in the street, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. (Source: AP)

A worker climbs stairs among some of the 2,000 pressure vessels that will be used to convert seawater into fresh water through reverse osmosis in the western hemisphere's largest desalination plant in Carlsbad, California. As California endures the worst drought in its recorded history, some are turning to the sea for relief. The Carlsbad Desalination Project, scheduled to start operations in late 2015, is expected to provide 50 million gallons of fresh drinking water a day. (Source: AP)

Brazil polluted: In this Feb. 28, 2015 photo, A fisherman shows a shrimp he caught in Guanabara bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio state authorities say they’re working to make good on a pledge made in Rio’s Olympic bid to cut the bay’s pollution by 80 percent. But fishermen who see the water up close day after day say they’ve witnessed little improvement. (Source: AP)

Kashmiri village women carry vessels containing water after filling them from a polluted river, in Khuniphat, some 30 kilometers north of Srinagar. The UN warns that the world could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water by 2030 unless countries dramatically change their use of the resource. (Source: AP)

Local residents line up as they wait to fetch water from a lake in Dala Township, 15 kilometers south of Yangon, Myanmar. (Source: AP)

A boy carries water in plastic containers as a Buddhist novice monk fetches water from the lake in Dala Township, Myanmar. (Source: AP)

The US Coast Guard cutter Sturgeon Bay breaks ice in the shipping channel on the Hudson River in Catskill, New York. With the prolonged cold winter weather, the Coast Guard has been busy clearing shipping lanes. (Source: AP)

Foam from industrial effluents covers the surface of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. (Source: Express photo by Praveen Khanna)

A flock of sheep drink from a dam at the edge of the dried-up Lake George, about 250 kilometers southwest of Sydney, Australia. Australia's outback and surrounding regions are a vast, arid and semi-arid area that are perpetually on the verge of, or in the midst of, a drought. Farmers must constantly explore different ways of keeping their livestock hydrated, crops watered and themselves alive by making use of dams, storage tanks and artesian wells. (Source: AP)