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  • In an area of Kharkiv Oblast recently liberated from Russian occupation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive, a woman desends to the river bank to be ferried across the Siverski Donets River in a row-boat along with supplies after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Spring thaw of the Neva river. Leningrad, Russia, USSR. 06/04/1991.
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  • Men fill jerrycans with feul near a destroyed bridge while residents wait to be ferried across the Siverskyi Donets River in rowboats following the liberation of the area Ukraine’s counter-offensive. Staryi Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents and supplies are ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents and supplies are ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Two men greet each other on a small boat where residents and supplies are ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents load supplies onto small rowboats to be ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing in an area of Kharkiv Oblast liberated from Russian control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents and supplies are ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents ferrying supplies and passengers across the Siverskyl Donets River in small boats because of the destruction of bridge by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • Residents load supplies onto small rowboats to be ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing in an area of Kharkiv Oblast liberated from Russian control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022..
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  • Lanchas making their way up the Usumacinta river to the Mayan site of Yaxitlan on the Mexican-Guatemalan border...Escudo Jaguar, Mexico. 03/01/2004...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Residents load supplies onto small rowboats to be ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing in an area of Kharkiv Oblast liberated from Russian control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryi Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents and supplies are ferried across the Siverskyi Donets River in small rowboats after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing in an area of Kharkiv Oblast liberated from Russian control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Autumn counter-offensive. The massive destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryi Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents carry supplies near a destroyed bridge to be ferried across the Siverskyi Donets River in rowboats following the liberation of the area by Ukraine’s counter-offensive.  Staryi Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Residents and supplies are ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing in an area of Kharkiv Oblast liberated from Russian control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • Men wait for a small boat ferrying supplies under a bridge over the Siverskyl Donets River that was destroyed by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • A policeman and a soldier stand on a bridge over the Siverskyl Donets River that was destroyed by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • Residents ferrying supplies across the Siverskyl Donets River in small boats because of the destruction of bridge by Russian bombing. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • Residents transport supplies and passengers in small rowboats across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing in an area of Kharkiv Oblast liberated from Russian control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • Residents load supplies onto small rowboats to be ferried across the Siverski Donets River after the bridge was destroyed by Russian bombing in an area of Kharkiv Oblast liberated from Russian control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • A bridge over the Oskil river and a Russian military vehicle destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine war. Hlushkivka, Ukraine. 16/10/2022.
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  • A bridge over the Oskil river destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine war. Hlushkivka, Ukraine. 16/10/2022.
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  • Barges for transporting coal to Shanghai's power plants on the Guangpu river. 75% of China's energy needs is supplied by coal, the cheapest and dirtiest form of energy. China's booming economy is bringing wealth to many chinese, but soaring demand for energy is having serious effects on the environment..Shanghai China. 17/11/2005.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • In an area of Kharkiv Oblast that was liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive, a woman makes a call on a bridge over the Siverskyl Donets River that was destroyed by Russian bombing. The destruction of infrastructure has cut off communities from essential supplies and medical care. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • A "lancha" boat takes tourists to the Mayan site of Yaxitlan along the Usumacinta river  on the Mexican-Guatemalan border...Escudo Jaguar, Mexico. 03/01/2004...Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A hand painted red sign reading "MINES" nailed to a tree in an autumn landscape following the liberation of the area from Russian control by the Ukrainian Army. Kupiansk Vuzlovyi, Ukraine. 14/10/2022.
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  • The ruins of a restaurant and park destroyed by Russian bombardments on a hill overlooking the the valley on the outskrts of the town of Izyum, Ukraine. 07/10/2022.
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  • A road block indicating a destroyed bridge and mines. Staryl Saltiv, Ukraine. 05/10/2022.
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  • Women from the Nerewalo cooperative working in their vegetable garden. An irrigation project that pumps water from the nearby Senegal River into the garden plots has allowed the cooperative to thrive despite the severe droughts and erratic rains caused by climate change and global warming that have had devastating effects on the Sahel in recent years. The fruits and vegetables cultivated by the cooperative improve the nutritional in-take of the community, reduce hunger and generate much needed revenue for the women of the cooperative. The income from the sale of surplus produce empowers the women and gives them a larger say in community decisions, traditionally dominated by men.<br />
Nerewalo, Mauritania. 11/03/2011.
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  • A man crosses a bridge over the Hospital Wadi after a torrential downpour. The Sahel region is prone to flooding and severe erosion during the rainy season due to a lack of infrastructure and water management systems. Much needed rain water rapidly drains off the land into rivers limiting seepage into the water table and benefits to agricultural production. <br />
Selibaby, Mauritania. 07/09/2010.
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Young boys handling hoses that pump water from the Lumeji River into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Young boys handling hoses that pump water from the Lumeji River into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Water from the Lumeji River being pumped into tanker trucks that transport the water to the nearby town of Luena. During the country's civil war, the area around the river was heavily mined and the bridge crossing the river destroyed, depriving the town of an important source of drinking water. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of mines allowing the reconstruction of the bridge and the community to once again benefit from the river..Lumeji, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Click on the cart icon to purchase. Price: 125€. Professional archival pigment quality print on Fine Art HAHNEMÜHLE Baryta paper. Print size: 20 x 30 cm (7.87 x 11.8 in) with a 25mm (1 in) white border. <br />
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A man lays laundry out to dry in the sun in front of a colonial fort along the banks of the Senegal River. The river, cutting through this part of the Western Sahel, is central to daily life in the region. Men, often immigrants from neighboring Mali, make money washing clothes in the river for Senegalese families. <br />
Bakel, Senegal. 05/09/2010.
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  • Women washing laundry along the banks of the Luena River. The area was heavily contaminated with landmines during Angola's long civil war. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of landmines and other remnants of war making the river, a vital source of water for the community, safe..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A woman carrying salt-rich crusts of dirt scrapped from the surface of defunct rice fields that have been sterilized by increasing salt levels in the soil and ground water to the edge of the Soungrougrou River. Rice cultivation is an ancient practice in Casamance and an integral part of the local culture and economy. In recent years climate change induced drought and rising sea levels have caused the saline content of soil in many places to become too concentrated for agricultural purposes. Faced with the loss of their rice fields, women collect the salt rich top soil of their former rice patties and filter salt water from the river through the crusts to make a salt rich brine which is transformed into solar salt through the process of evaporation. The commercialization of the solar salt generates revenue for the community and helps compensate families for the loss of their rice yields. The solar method of salt production is also sustainable as it protects local forests compared to traditional wood burning salt production. Diafar Douma, Casamance, Senegal. 20/04/2016.
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  • Women washing laundry along the banks of the Luena River. The area was heavily contaminated with landmines during Angola's long civil war. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of landmines and other remnants of war making the river, a vital source of water for the community, safe..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Before the war, the family of Hshim Isa Omran al-Hafaji lived in al-Quardada alzuwia, a poor neighborhood with dilapidated housing. When Saddam Hussein's special security forces abandoned their luxury apartments along the Tigris river, the al-Hafaji family moved in..Baghdad, Iraq. 14 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • In a landscape of devastated mangroves along the banks of the Soungrougrou River in the Casamance region of Senegal, a fisherman pulls in a largely empty net. Drought caused by climate change has transformed the ecosystem into an inversed estuary, of which few exist in the world. When there are abundant rains, fresh water flushes the salt out of the waterways, but with the prolonged drought, inland salt levels have become more concentrated than at the mouth of the rivers where they reach the sea. The increased salinization of the ecosystem has degraded large swaths of West African mangrove forests with devastating consequences on fish stocks, wildlife and the livelihoods of local inhabitants. The biomass that mangrove forests harbor makes them excellent carbon sinks in the fight against global warming. According to a recent report by the UNEP, mangrove forests worldwide are being destroyed at a rate three to five times faster than global deforestation, making them one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet.  Marsassoum, Senegal. 05/12/2015.
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  • Before the war, Hashim Isa Omran al-Hafaji's family lived in the poor al-Quardada alzuwia neighborhood in dilapidated housing. When Saddam Hussein's special security forces abandoned their luxury apartments along the Tigiris river, the al-Hafaji family moved in..Baghdad, Iraq. 14 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Before the war, Hashim Isa Omran al-Hafaji's family lived in the poor al-Quarada alzuwia neighborhood in dilapidated housing. When Saddam Hussein's security forces abandoned their luxury apartments along the Tigris river, the al-Hafaji family moved in..Baghdad, Iraq. 14 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • The remains of one of Saddam Hussein's luxury family compounds along the banks of the Tigris River. The palacial mansions were bombed by coalition forces and heavily looted by Iraqis..Baghdad, Iraq. 05 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Women buy fish from the Tigris river in a market in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Thora City, formerly known as Saddam City. .Baghdad, Iraq. 06 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Before the war, the family of Hshim Isa Omran al-Hafaji lived in al-Quardada alzuwia, a poor neighborhood with dilapidated housing. When Saddam Hussein's special security forces abandoned their luxury apartments along the Tigris river, the al-Hafaji family moved in..Baghdad, Iraq. 14 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • The remains of one of Saddam Hussein's palacial family compounds along the banks of the Tigris River. The property was bombed by coalition forces and heavily looted by Iraqis..Baghdad, Iraq. 05 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Woman selling fish from the Tigris river in a market in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Thora City, formerly known as Saddam City. Living conditions throughout the city have severely deteriorated since the war and the collapse of authority and public services..Baghdad, Iraq. 06 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A man baths in the Casamance River. Drought caused by climate change has transformed the ecosystem into an inversed estuary, of which few exist in the world. When there are abundant rains, fresh water flushes the salt out of the waterways, but with the prolonged drought, inland salt levels have become more concentrated than at the mouth of the rivers where they reach the sea. The increased salinization of the ecosystem has degraded large swaths of West African mangrove forests with devastating consequences on fish stocks, wildlife and the livelihoods of local inhabitants. Bambaly, Senegal. 12/11/2014.
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  • A Malian man lays laundry out in the sun to dry along the banks of the Senegal River. Malians cross the river to Senegal to offer services such as clothes washing and manual labor. Bakel, Sénégal. 05/09/2010.
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  • The Mekong River..Kompong Cham, Cambodia.  May 1993..Photo © J.B. Russell.
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers rebuilding a bridge over the Luena River in Moxico province. The Chinese government made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to rebuild the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers reconstruct a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers reconstruct a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers work on an irrigation project for large-scale agricultural production along the banks of the Luena River. China has extended multibillion dollar loans to the Angolan government and in exchange is entitled to 70% of reconstruction contracts. There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers spread across the country rebuilding infrastructrue devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Moxico Province, Angola. 22/07/2009..Photos © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers work on an irrigation project for large-scale agricultural production along the banks of the Luena River. China has extended multibillion dollar loans to the Angolan government and in exchange is entitled to 70% of reconstruction contracts. There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers spread across the country rebuilding infrastructrue devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Moxico Province, Angola. 22/07/2009..Photos © J.B. Russell
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  • The Alto Zambeze bridge crossing the Zambeze River. During the civil war the bridge was destroyed and the area heavily mined. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and bridge of landmines allowing the bridge to be reconstructed..Cazombo, Moxico Province, Angola. 26/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Jermias Matuca, the deputy Soba (chief) of the village, along with villagers and a digger from Mines Advisory Group (MAG). MAG cleared the area of landmines and extended the canal into the village with their digger to allow the village to complete the project, which the villagers had begun digging by hand. The canal will bring water to the village from the river for agricultural purposes and for drinking..Luangirico, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A mural on the wall of one of Saddam Hussein's palacial mansions along the banks of the Tigris River..Baghdad, Iraq. 05 May 2003..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • The body of a Russian soldier lies beside a military post on a bombed bridge that spans the Oskil River that runs through the town of Kupiansk, just behind the front lines of the Ukrainian counter-offensive against the Russian Army in Kharkiv Oblast. Kup'yans'k, Ukraine. 08/10/2022.
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  • Nathalina Angelo and two of her four children. Her village has no potable water or public services. Villagers take water directly from the river for drinking, cooking and washing. Her family suffers from chronic diarrhea and other illnesses. A project to drill bore holes and install water towers is waiting for clearence of unexploded ordinance left over from the war to begin..Yei, South Sudan. 27/06/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Nathalina Angelo and two of her four children. Her village has no potable water or public services. Villagers take water directly from the river for drinking, cooking and washing. Her family suffers from chronic diarrhea and other illnesses. A project to drill bore holes and install water towers is waiting for clearence of unexploded ordinance left over from the war to begin..Yei, South Sudan. 27/06/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • During the dry season transhumance, semi-nomadic herdsmen water their cattle at the Pont de Lexeïba along the Black Gorgol river..Lexeïba, Mauritania. 05/03/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • During the dry season transhumance, semi-nomadic herdsmen water their cattle at the Pont de Lexeïba along the Black Gorgol river..Lexeïba, Mauritania. 05/03/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers rebuilding a bridge over the Luena River in Moxico province. The Chinese government made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to rebuild the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers rebuilding a bridge over the Luena River in Moxico province. The Chinese government made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to rebuild the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers rebuilding a bridge over the Luena River in Moxico province. The Chinese government made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to rebuild the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Steph Naude, a Technical Field Manager for Mines Advisory Group (MAG), consults with Joseph Guya, a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the clearence of a detour route that would allow the UNHCR to repair a bridge over the Aisa River necessary for the transport of food to refugee camps in Central Equatoria province..Mitika, South Sudan. 30/09/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Steph Naude, a Technical Field Manager for Mines Advisory Group (MAG), consults with Joseph Guya, a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the clearence of a detour route that would allow the UNHCR to repair a bridge over the Aisa River necessary for the transport of food to refugee camps in Central Equatoria province..Mitika, South Sudan. 30/09/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Toposa tribe women draw water from a hole dug in the dry bed of the Singaita River in Eastern Equatoria province. Failed rainy seasons have severely affected several East African countries..Kapoeta, South Sudan. 27/09/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Girls from the Toposa tribe draw water from a hole dug in the dry bed of the Singaita River in Eastern Equatoria province. Failed rainy seasons have severely affected several East African countries..Kapoeta, South Sudan. 27/09/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers reconstruct a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Chinese contractor on his cot at the construction site of a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers reconstruct a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers reconstruct a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An Angolan laborer working on a Chinese run construction site rebuilding a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers reconstruct a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers work on an irrigation project for large-scale agricultural production along the banks of the Luena River. China has extended multibillion dollar loans to the Angolan government and in exchange is entitled to 70% of reconstruction contracts. There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers spread across the country rebuilding infrastructrue devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Moxico Province, Angola. 22/07/2009..Photos © J.B. Russell
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  • The Alto Zambeze bridge crossing the Zambeze River. During the civil war the bridge was destroyed and the area heavily mined. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and bridge of landmines allowing the bridge to be reconstructed..Cazombo, Moxico Province, Angola. 26/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Boys playing by the river under a reconstructed bridge in the eastern province of Moxico. Infrasturcture in Angola was largely destroyed during the country's long civil war. The road and bridges between the provincial captial Luena and Lumbalagimbo, on the Zambian border, were cleared of landmines by Mines Advisory Group (MAG), allowing a major reconstruction project to take place..Mukonda, Angola. 24/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A bridge crossing the river Lungue Bungo in the eastern province of Moxico. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared landmines along the road from the provincial capital Luena to Lucusse allowing for the reconstruction of bridges and the road..Moxico Province, Angola. 23/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Rusell
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  • Jermias Matuca, the deputy Soba (chief) of the village. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the area of landmines and extended the canal into the village with their digger to allow the village to complete the project, which the villagers had begun digging by hand. The canal will bring water to the village from the river for agricultural purposes and for drinking..Luangirico, Moxico Province, Angola. 21/07/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A barge ferrying vehicles and passangers is hand pulled across a river in the south eastern province of Katanga. After decades of civil war and kleptocratic dictatorship, the enormous country has virtually no infrastructure such as paved roads and bridges.?Democratic Republic of Congo. 16/06/2006?Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A house swept into the river by the December 26, 2004 tsunami..Bentota, Sri Lanka. 19/01/2005.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Despite vast reserves of petroleum, diamonds and natural resources, decades of fighting between FAA (Fora Armada Angolana) forces and UNITA rebels have impoverished Angola and crippled its people.  Eight years ago the water treatment station of Luena was attacked and mined by UNITA.  The town has been without running water ever since.  People must take paths through mined areas to obtain water from the river for drinking, cooking bathing and washing..Luena, Angola.  05-12-2001.Photo: J.B. Russell
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  • The skeletal remains of hundreds of mangrove trees mark barren flats along the Soungrougrou River where dense mangroves once flourished. West Africa is home to one of the world's most important mangrove forests, however large areas of the forests have been dying off in recent years. Locals and experts believe that drought and rising sea levels due to climate change have caused the increased salinization of the unique mangrove ecosystem leading to the degradation of large swaths of mangrove forests with detrimental consequences on biodiversity, fish stocks and the livelihoods of local inhabitants. Mangrove forests are excellent carbon sinks and essential in the fight against global warming. According to a recent report by the UNEP, the world's mangroves are being destroyed at a rate three to five times faster than global deforestation. The report calls mangrove forests "one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet." Marsassoum, Casamance, Senegal. 16/04/2016.
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  • Local fishermen clean their nets along the banks of the Casamance River. Fishing is crucial to the local economy. Rising sea levels and drought due to global warming and climate change are causing the salinization of the complex mangrove ecosystem of the coastal zone, with adverse affects on the fish, shrimp and shellfish stocks that local communities depend on for their livelihoods. Sédhiou, Sénégal. 12/11/2014.
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  • An elderly woman sits infront of her home suffering from an intestinal illness. Her village has no potable water or public services. Villagers take water directly from the river for drinking, cooking and washing. The inhabitants suffer from chronic diarrhea and other illnesses. A project to drill bore holes and install water towers is waiting for clearence of unexploded ordinance left over from the war in order to begin..Yei, South Sudan. 27/06/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A woman surveys her livestock. During the dry season transhumance, semi-nomadic herdsmen water their cattle at the Pont de Lexeïba along the Black Gorgol river..Lexeïba, Mauritania. 05/03/2011..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Motorists climb a hill from a bridge being rebuilt over the Luena River in Moxico province. The Chinese government made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to rebuild the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Chinese contractor walking on a bridge over the Luena River in Moxico province. The bridge is being reconstructed by the Chinese company Sinohydro. The Chinese government has made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to reconstruct the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • An Angolan laborer working for the Chinese company Sinohydro climbing up on a water truck on a bridge over the Luena River in Moxico province. The Chinese government made a multi-billion dollar loan to the Angolan government who is contracting Chinese companies to rebuild the country's infrastructure devastated by decades of civil war..Luena, Angola. 02/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A barrel full of water, trucked in from the river, in an area called 4 de Fevereiro on the outskrits of the provincial capital. The area was heavily contaminated with landmines during the country's long civil war and is the region's largest minefield. Returning refugees and displaced people as well as the government's "Village Reunification Program," a program that encourages people living in remote hamlets to move into larger villages and towns so that the government can provide basic services such as education, health care, electricity and water to the population, has placed enormous pressure on the town to find safe land for people to live and to begin rebuilding their lives. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is clearing the area of landmines and other remnents of the conflict to allow resettlement, housing and the long-term development of the country..Luena, Angola. 28/10/2010.Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Steph Naude, a Technical Field Manager for Mines Advisory Group (MAG), consults with Joseph Guya, a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the clearence of a detour route that would allow the UNHCR to repair a bridge over the Aisa River necessary for the transport of food to refugee camps in Central Equatoria province..Mitika, South Sudan. 30/09/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A Toposa tribe's woman attempting to draw water from a hole dug in the dry bed of the Singaita River in Eastern Equatoria province. Failed rainy seasons have severely affected several East African countries..Kapoeta, South Sudan. 27/09/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Toposa tribe women draw water from a hole dug in the dry bed of the Singaita River in Eastern Equatoria province. Failed rainy seasons have severely affected several East African countries..Kapoeta, South Sudan. 27/09/2009..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • A camp for Chinese contractors reconstructing a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • The supervisor of a Chinese construction crew rebuilding a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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  • Chinese contractors and Angolan laborers reconstruct a bridge over the Sacassange River in Moxico Province. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) cleared the road and areas around the bridge of landmines to allow rebuilding to take place. After decades of conflict, the country is undergoing a vast reconstruction program..Sacassanje, Angola. 29/07/2008..Photo © J.B. Russell
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