10 troubling shots of how water scarcity in fact looks around the world

Not so long ago, the first exhibition of the American photographer Mustafa Abdulaziz opened in London, at which the author presented his alarming and very relevant project called "Stories about Water". Abdulaziz devoted these works to the topic of global water scarcity.

The photographer has been working on this documentary project since 2011. During its creation, he visited 8 different countries, where the problem of water shortage is most acute.

Children went to get water. Sindh Province, Pakistan, 2013.

Drought in the Cantareira Reservoir. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2015.

The photographer demonstrates the effects of urbanization, poor sanitation, pollution, and water scarcity. Women get water from the well. Tharparkar, Pakistan, 2013.

"Photos allow us to show our place in the world, allow us to study this imbalance between water and civilization in the hope that we can look at ourselves and our world not as separate phenomena, but as one, whose future is inextricably linked." - says the photographer. In the photo - shrimp catch on Lake Hong. Hubei Province, China, 2015.

The construction of the Three Gorges Dam in the Chinese province of Hubei cost about $ 40 billion. This led to the relocation of 1.4 million inhabitants. The Chinese government says the dam will cope with frequent floods on the Yangtze River and will produce the energy needed by industry.

450 million people live in the Yangtze River Basin. It extends over 6,300 km from the Tibetan plateau to the East China Sea in Shanghai.

Women and children are drinking water in Osukupta, Nigeria. According to WaterAid, 57 million people in Nigeria do not have access to clean water.

774 million people do not have access to normal sanitation in India. The photo shows an irrigation canal in Kanpur, India, 2014.

According to WaterAid, more than 140,000 children die each year from diarrhea caused by dirty water and poor sanitation in India. In the photo - treatment facilities in Kanpur, India, 2014.

Wastewater treatment plant in Kanpur, India, 2014.

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