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By HL fotoeins on 19 Mar 2018

Above: Early start by fishermen on the Bodensee on a misty autumn morning (HL).

22 March is World Water Day:

An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

Cape Town’s dwindling fresh water supply has once again raised attention and a call to examine usage, recycling, and waste of available drinking water.

I list the following examples of fresh water bodies to question our interaction with and impact on water sources, and to ask whether water is truly free and whether some people are more “free” to receive water than others.

1. Aachener Weiher: Cologne, Germany
2. Akaka Falls: Hawaii, USA
3. Aussenalster: Hamburg, Germany
4. Bodensee: Unteruhldingen, Germany
5. Capilano Lake: Vancouver, Canada
6. Eibsee: Grainau, Germany
7. Embalse Puclaro: Región de Coquimbo, Chile
8. Foz do Iguaçu: Brazil
9. Lake Burley Griffin: Canberra, Australia
10. Lake Matheson: New Zealand’s South Island
11. Lake Ontario: Toronto, Canada
12. Lake Washington: Seattle, USA

Aachener Weiher: Cologne, Germany

Akaka Falls: Hawaii, USA

Aussenalster: Hamburg, Germany

Summer stylings in Hamburg’s outer Alster lake – 27 June 2010 (HL).

Bodensee: Unteruhldingen, Germany

Reconstruction of historical pile dwellings and museum on Lake Constance – 23 September 2017 (HL).

Capilano Lake: North Vancouver, Canada

This lake supplies over one-third of the drinking water in metro Vancouver – 1 January 2016 (HL).

Eibsee: Grainau, Germany

Eibsee lake, on descent from Zugspitze summit – 9 October 2011 (HL).

Embalse Puclaro: between La Serena & Vicuña, Chile

Foz do Iguaçu: Brazil

From the Brazilian side across to the other side in Argentina – 13 June 2007 (HL).

Lake Burley Griffin: Canberra, Australia

Late-winter afternoon on the man-made lake in Canberra – 9 September 2012 (HL).

Lake Matheson: Te Waka a Māui, Aotearoa

A picture of idyll on the South Island – 22 July 2012 (HL).

Lake Ontario: Toronto, Canada

Downtown Toronto skyline, from Mississauga at a distance of 22 km – 6 April 2012 (HL).

Lake Washington: Seattle, USA

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue (top) – 16 March 2017 (HL).

•   UN Water
•   UN World Water Day

For some examples of rivers around the world, click here.

I made all of the above photos between 2007 and 2017. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-9cha