30-05-2021 - Flint, Michigan, USA: The Flint Water Treatment Plant. Thousands of children were exposed to harmful concentrations of lead after the city water supply was contaminated in 2014. © Jim West

30-05-2021 - Flint, Michigan, USA: The Flint Water Treatment Plant. Thousands of children were exposed to harmful concentrations of lead after the city water supply was contaminated in 2014. © Jim West

10-05-2021 - Detroit, USA: The Great Lakes Water Authority sewage treatment plant, which serves Detroit and 76 other southeastern Michigan communities. Filter beds. The plant is the largest single site wastewater... © Jim West

10-05-2021 - Detroit, USA: The Great Lakes Water Authority sewage treatment plant, which serves Detroit and 76 other southeastern Michigan communities. Filter beds. The plant is the largest single site wastewater... © Jim West

10-05-2021 - Detroit, USA: The Great Lakes Water Authority sewage treatment plant, which serves Detroit and 76 other southeastern Michigan communities. Filter beds. The plant is the largest single site wastewater... © Jim West

07-03-2021 - Detroit, USA: Water tower, disused warehouse and industrial area on the east riverfront. General Motors HQ building. © Jim West

07-03-2021 - Detroit, USA: Water tower, disused warehouse and industrial area on the east riverfront. General Motors HQ building. © Jim West

07-03-2021 - Detroit, USA: Water tower, disused warehouse and industrial area on the east riverfront. General Motors HQ building. © Jim West

03-07-2020 - Colorado, USA, Irrigation canal, Weld County. The area gets only 15 inches of rain per year, so water for irrigation is diverted from the western side of the Rocky Mountains. © Jim West

02-04-2020 - Detroit, Michigan USA Coronavirus Pandemic. Workers constructing an emergency field hospital at the TCF convention center. The 1,000-bed hospital will care for Covid-19 patients © Jim West

02-04-2020 - Detroit, Michigan USA Coronavirus Pandemic. Workers constructing an emergency field hospital at the TCF convention center. The 1,000-bed hospital will care for Covid-19 patients © Jim West

02-04-2020 - Detroit, Michigan USA Coronavirus Pandemic. Workers constructing an emergency field hospital at the TCF convention center. The 1,000-bed hospital will care for Covid-19 patients © Jim West

11-12-2019 - Severn Trent Water Church Wilne Water Treatment Works, Derbyshire © John Harris

11-12-2019 - Severn Trent Water Church Wilne Water Treatment Works, Derbyshire © John Harris

14-11-2019 - Coachella, California, USA, West Coast Turf growing, irrigator moving plastic irrigation pipes and sprinklers. The turf will be cut into rolls and taken to baseball and football stadiums © David Bacon

14-11-2019 - Coachella, California, USA, West Coast Turf growing, irrigator moving plastic irrigation pipes and sprinklers. The turf will be cut into rolls and taken to baseball and football stadiums © David Bacon

24-07-2019 - Detroit, USA Sign warning against drinking water from a tap © Jim West

24-07-2019 - Detroit, USA Sign warning against drinking water from a tap © Jim West

28-06-2019 - Restored Edward Thomas narrow gauge steam locomotive, built in 1921, carrying tourists on the volunteer run, Heritage Talyllyn Railway, Dolgoch Falls Station, Tywyn, Snowdonia National Park, Wales. © Jess Hurd

12-04-2019 - Bulgarian migrant workers harvesting spinach, Warwickshire © John Harris

22-03-2019 - Flint, Michigan USA: World Water Day volunteers distributing 12 truckloads of bottled. The water supply was contaminated with lead nearly five years ago © Jim West

22-03-2019 - Flint, Michigan USA: World Water Day volunteers distributing 12 truckloads of bottled. The water supply was contaminated with lead nearly five years ago © Jim West

22-03-2019 - Flint, Michigan USA: World Water Day volunteers distributing 12 truckloads of bottled. The water supply was contaminated with lead nearly five years ago © Jim West

22-03-2019 - Flint, Michigan USA: World Water Day volunteers distributing 12 truckloads of bottled. The water supply was contaminated with lead nearly five years ago © Jim West

22-03-2019 - Flint, Michigan USA: World Water Day volunteers distributing 12 truckloads of bottled. The water supply was contaminated with lead nearly five years ago © Jim West

22-03-2019 - Flint, Michigan USA: World Water Day volunteers distributing 12 truckloads of bottled. The water supply was contaminated with lead nearly five years ago © Jim West

23-12-2018 - Nebraska, USA, windmills that pump water, Downey Well Drilling © Jim West

23-12-2018 - Nebraska, USA, windmills that pump water, Downey Well Drilling © Jim West

23-12-2018 - Nebraska, USA, windmills that pump water, Downey Well Drilling © Jim West

23-12-2018 - Nebraska, USA, windmills that pump water, Downey Well Drilling © Jim West

15-10-2018 - Detroit, Michigan, USA Mural on a building infront of US Ecology hazardous waste plant showing chemicals being dumped into the ground. The plants are all located in poor, mostly African-American areas... © Jim West

15-10-2018 - Detroit, Michigan, USA US Ecology hazardous waste plant. The plants are all located in poor, mostly African-American areas. The company handles a wide variety of toxic materials and discharges much of... © Jim West

01-08-2018 - Parchment, Michigan USA, State of emergency declared after high levels of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. Fire engine pumping water from a Kalamazoo fire hydrant down the street to connect wit... © Jim West

31-07-2018 - Parchment, Michigan USA, State of emergency declared after high levels of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. Volunteers from the Red Cross and local High School distributing bottled water to resi... © Jim West

31-07-2018 - Parchment, Michigan USA, State of emergency declared after high levels of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. Volunteers from the Red Cross and local High School distributing bottled water to resi... © Jim West

31-07-2018 - Parchment, Michigan USA, State of emergency declared after high levels of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. Volunteers from the Red Cross distributing bottled water to residents as a State of em... © Jim West

31-07-2018 - Parchment, Michigan USA, State of emergency declared after high levels of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. Residents examining a map showing the extent of PFAS contamination of their drinking w... © Jim West

31-07-2018 - Parchment, Michigan USA, State of emergency declared after high levels of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. Residents examining a map showing the extent of PFAS contamination of their drinking w... © Jim West

31-07-2018 - Parchment, Michigan USA, State of emergency declared after high levels of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water. Residents examining a map showing the extent of PFAS contamination of their drinking w... © Jim West

28-06-2018 - Smoke from Saddleworth Moor fire, Lower Swineshaw Reservoir, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Soldiers and firefighters deployed to Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Soldiers and firefighters deployed to Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Firefighters deployed to Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Helicopter dropping water onto Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire. Provided by water firm United Utilities it is being used to collect water from a nearby reservoir and drop it on the moor... © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Soldiers deployed to Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire. © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Firefighters deployed to Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Firefighters deployed to Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Firefighters deployed to Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Helicopter dropping water onto Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire. Provided by water firm United Utilities it is being used to collect water from a nearby reservoir and drop it on the moor... © Jess Hurd

28-06-2018 - Helicopter dropping water onto Saddleworth Moor fire, Stalybridge, Derbyshire. Provided by water firm United Utilities it is being used to collect water from a nearby reservoir and drop it on the moor... © Jess Hurd

09-06-2018 - Detroit, Michigan, USA: A sign warning of a lead hazard outside a house. Children are particularly vulnerable to lead poisoning. The number of children with elevated blood levels (EBLLs) in Detroit ha... © Jim West

03-03-2018 - Filthy, frozen vehicles due to a burst water main, Globe Town, East London © Jess Hurd

03-03-2018 - Filthy, frozen bench seat due to a burst water main, Globe Town, East London. A bus passing. © Jess Hurd

03-03-2018 - Filthy, frozen vehicles due to a burst water main, Globe Town, East London © Jess Hurd

03-03-2018 - Filthy, frozen vehicles due to a burst water main, Globe Town, East London © Jess Hurd

03-03-2018 - Filthy, frozen bench seat due to a burst water main, Globe Town, East London © Jess Hurd

15-11-2017 - Wadsworth, Texas, USA - A windmill in a field near the Gulf of Mexico © Jim West

14-11-2017 - Tilden, Texas, USA Sign offering water for sale from Rancho Tres Hijos for fracking in oilfield operations in the surrounding Eagle Ford Shale. Rancho Tres Hijos is a cattle and hunting ranch © Jim West

10-11-2017 - Casa Grande, Arizona desert, USA An abandoned irrigation ditch © Jim West

03-11-2017 - Rosharon, Texas, USA Cambodian immigrant farmers living in poor conditions more than two months afer Hurricane Harvey swept through southeast Texas. Im Vanthan, 76, is living in a makeshift tent after... © Jim West

03-11-2017 - Rosharon, Texas, USA Cambodian immigrant farmers living in poor conditions more than two months afer Hurricane Harvey swept through southeast Texas. Im Vanthan, 76, is living in a makeshift tent after... © Jim West

03-11-2017 - Rosharon, Texas, USA Cambodian immigrant farmers living in poor conditions more than two months afer Hurricane Harvey swept through southeast Texas. Im Vanthan, 76, is living in a makeshift tent after... © Jim West

06-10-2017 - Grand Rapids, Michigan USA ArtPrize competition Flint by Ti-Rock Moore about the Flint water crisis and racism, featuring dirty brown water flowing from a water fountain with a sign Colored © Jim West

18-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA A water station left by a faith group in the desert near the US Mexican border at Mt. Signal. The water point flag is intended to be visible from a distance to help mi... © David Bacon

17-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA Irrigation canal for agriculture © David Bacon

17-08-2017 - Imperial Valley, California, USA The All American Canal flowing next to the US Mexican border, it eventually ends at the Salton Sea © David Bacon

14-06-2017 - Grenfell Tower Fire. Local residents outside the Latymer Community Church Centre in West London just a few hundred metres from Grenfell Tower collect contributions donated by other local people to hel... © Stefano Cagnoni

18-04-2017 - Tucson, Arizona - Members of the Tucson Samaritans place crosses in the desert at the places where the remains of migrants were found. Hundreds of migrants from Mexico and Central America have perishe... © Jim West

18-04-2017 - Tucson, Arizona, USA Mexican Border, Tucson Samaritans placing crosses in the desert where the remains of immigrants were found. Hundreds of migrants from Mexico and Central America die trying to evad... © Jim West

18-04-2017 - Tucson, Arizona, USA A water tank used by ranchers for cattle in the desert. A cross indicates that an immigrant died here when he climbed in to get water and drowned when he could not get out. Hundre... © Jim West

15-11-2016 - Detroit, Michigan USA Protest in support of Native Americans trying to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline © Jim West

15-11-2016 - Detroit, Michigan USA Protest in support of Native Americans trying to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

03-11-2016 - Flint, Michigan USA Replacing lead and galvanized steel water pipes to 800 homes. The water supply became contaminated with lead after state officials decided in 2014 to take drinking water from the F... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Mariano Lake, New Mexico, USA, Poisoned water for the Navajo. Sign warning of radiation danger on the site of an abandoned uranium mine, one of more than 500 abandoned mines on Navajo Nation land. Thi... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Mariano Lake, New Mexico, USA, Poisoned water for the Navajo. Sign warning of radiation danger on the site of an abandoned uranium mine, one of more than 500 abandoned mines on Navajo Nation land. Thi... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Mariano Lake, New Mexico, USA, Poisoned water for the Navajo. Sign warning of radiation danger on the site of an abandoned uranium mine, one of more than 500 abandoned mines on Navajo Nation land. Thi... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

11-10-2016 - Thoreau, New Mexico, clean water being delivered by St. Bonaventure Indian Mission for a Navajo family. A third of the Navajo Nation lack a water supply in some places because past uranium mining has... © Jim West

03-10-2016 - Homeless queuing for food handed out by the Imam Hasan Foodbank, Birmingham © Jess Hurd

03-10-2016 - Homeless queuing for food handed out by the Imam Hasan Foodbank, Birmingham © Jess Hurd

02-10-2016 - Berlin, Germany. Growing food in a community garden, Kreuzberg © David Bacon