IRAQ-DROUGHT-WATER

Children collect water from a cistern amid shortage and high temperature in the village of al-Aghawat in Iraq’s central Diwaniya province, on July 18, 2022. – Dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit southern Iraq, surviving on sporadic tanker-truck deliveries and salty wells. For everything from drinking to bathing and washing dishes and clothes, Ajil and his eight children wait at their home in Al-Aghawat for trucked-in water from the Diwaniyah provincial authorities once or twice a week.

(Photo by Haidar INDHAR / AFP)