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The United Nations estimates that 650 million people worldwide currently have no access to safe water, placing them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

Reuters reports that the UN further estimates that “waterborne diseases are responsible for the deaths of 900 children under the age of five every day.”

World Water Day will be observed on March 22, calling attention to the global struggle to access clean water, and the work being done to alleviate the problems.

A man carries buckets filled with water on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India, on March 4, 2016.

A young girl collects buckets of drinking water at Dala river outside Yangon, Burma, on March 3, 2016.

A drills a hole in the frozen Yenisei River to draw fresh water for cooking and drinking, outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, on March 2, 2016.

Residents walk past water pipes in the rebel-held Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on March 7, 2016.

Visitors scoop water using traditional ladles at a natural spring water spot at Daikyoji Temple, in Tokyo, Japan, on March 6, 2016.

A boy draws drinking water from a well using a hand pump in Peshawar, Pakistan, on March 4, 2016.

Ram Kumar Khadka, 36, climbs out of a well after cleaning it in Kathmandu, Nepal, on February 22, 2016.

Monkeys pass by vending machines selling water and soft drinks in Hong Kong, China, on February 29, 2016.

A civil defense worker pours water from a water truck into a container in Presidente Figueiredo, in Amazonas state, Brazil, on March 4, 2016.

Children drink water from a public water pump on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 4, 2016.

Men collect water from the Euphrates river in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, on March 7, 2016.

A man places his bottles to be filled with water dripping from a spring next to a highway along the Avila mountain in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 3, 2016.

People fetch water in containers at a water selling point in the Makoko fishing community on the Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria, on February 29, 2016.

Men pour water brought by cart into a container at a stall on Clifton Beach in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 5, 2016.

A woman and her granddaughter walk next to a rainwater tank that collects water used for washing and cleaning in San Miguel Xicalco, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, on March 4, 2016.

A Palestinian man pulls his donkey loaded with empty bottles as he makes his way to fill them with drinking water, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 1.

A source of water and a statue of Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil's national saint, inside a cave in, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on March 3, 2016.

A woman fills a bucket with drinking water from a well in the village of Rum, Belarus, on March 4, 2016.

A man fills a glass with water from a spring in Chiffa in Medea Governorate, Algeria, on March 4, 2016.

A woman drinks water in El Crucero, Nicaragua, on February 27, 2016.