World Water Day: India

An Indian girl carries a pot of drinking water collected from a public tap, on the eve of World Water Day in Bangalore, India, March 21, 2012.

The U.N. estimates that more than one in six people worldwide do not have access to five to 13 gallons of safe freshwater a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning.

Credit: AP/Aijaz Rahi