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People bathe in the polluted waters of Manila Bay as a holiday activity in Philippines


She enjoys a sunny spring day in the northern German village


#44 of the Washington Nationals pours water on his head during the game against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia


Water festival in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


Festival goers spray water on passer-bys in vehicles celebrating Thingyan, Myanmar's new year water festival, in central Yangon


Israeli children enjoy the spring water of Nahal Prat, in the Judea Desert near the West Bank settlement of Alon, east of Jerusalem


Israeli children enjoy the spring water of Nahal Prat, in the Judea Desert near the West Bank settlement of Alon, east of Jerusalem


Young people are sprayed with water during the annual water festival in Yangon, Myanmar


People play with a ball as they take a dip on a sunny spring day at Berlin's Wannsee lido


Young people are sprayed with water during the annual water festival in Yangon, Myanmar


Seven year old boy Apple Rozas, from Britain, poses with a water gun for his father, in front of Thai soldiers after they cleared an intersection, in Bangkok, Thailand


Men in traditional Slovak clothes throw buckets of cold water on women in a Selec village 120 km east of Bratislava


A boy jumps into the water of Cocibolca lake at the colonial city of Granada, some 29 miles south of Managua


A girl fills containers with water from another at Dar El Salam, Cairo


Bangladeshi children carry empty water pots as they perform during a road side dance drama in Dhaka, Bangladesh


Afghan children get water from a water source during the World Water Day in Kabul, Afghanistan


A child sits beside a polluted water canal near the beach at the Dehiwala suburb of Colombo


Pakistani women make their way towards their homes after collecting fresh water from a water point on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan


Children take a bath to cool off from the summer heat at a slum area in Tondo, Metro Manila


A turtle is seen on a jetty in Cocibolca lake at the colonial city of Granada, some 29 miles south of Managua