World Water Day, on March 22 every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water.
While in some countries complaining about rain is a way of passing the day, for others the natural resource is in short supply.
India is one country grappling with a water crisis.
An Indian woman fills plastic vessels with water from a shared tap (Aijaz Rahi/AP)
A cadet of the National Cadets Corp (NCC) makes a point on World Water Day (Mahesh Kumar A./AP)
A woman washes clothes by a public tap (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)
A man carries a vessel of water in Bangalore (Aijaz Rahi/AP)
An Indian boy jumps across polluted water in Gauhati (Anupam Nath/AP)
