English transcription: Arid Zones - sources of drinking water are rare in this region and are used by people from miles around. Shown here is the queue awaiting their turn at the pump.
French transcription: Zones arides - les points d'eau douce sont rares dans cette région et on y vient de très loin. Ici, on fait queue autour de l'un de ces points.
Description: Several men in traditional garb pulling water from a well or waiting their turn. Some men are sitting on donkeys laden with water jugs in woven baskets.
Location: Tafilalet district.

English transcription: Arid zones - drinking-water hole near the Oued Reris.
French transcription: Zones arides -point d'eau potable auprès de l'oued Reris.
Description: A person with a striped shirt, pants, a belt, and a headband is filling an urn with water in a rocky desert. The person has a second urn.
Location: Tafilalet Region.

English transcription: A child collecting drinking water from the fountain in the courtyard of the Pitti Palace.
French transcription: Dans la cour du Palais Pitti, un enfant vient remplir des bouteilles à l'eau potable d'une fontaine.
Description: A young boy is filling empty wine bottles with water from a public fountain, filling a baby carriage with his catch. The water is spouting from the mouth of an ancient mythological figure.
Location: Florence.

English transcription: Village woman fetching water at the well.
French transcription: Une villageoise remplit sa cruche au puits.
Description: An old woman - wearing an apron - is pouring water from a bucket into a water pot. The bucket is tied to a rope.
Location: Patzcuaro.

English transcription: Wash day.
French transcription: Lessive au village.
Description: On top, a village of thatched, peaky roofed houses; and below, many village women and girls (and perhaps a spectator boy or two) tending to laundry in a passing river. In between the two, many items of laundry have been laid out to dry on the grasses alongside the village to river pathway.
Location: Nzerekore, Region of.

French transcription: Extrait du livre "Eaux Rares". Les Presses de l'UNESCO - 1981.
Description: A line of 9 stooped and hatted farmers, advancing through a rice paddy, harvesting rice stalks.

English transcription: UNESCO project for the access of girls and women to education. The African sun is so hot in the month of May that the students cool their feet in water whilst studying.
French transcription: Projet de l'UNESCO pour l'accès des femmes à l'éducation. Cours normal de jeunes-filles. Il fait si chaud au mois de Mai, que les étudiantes révisent leurs leçons, les pieds dans les lavabos de la cour de récréation.
Description: Outdoors, alongside a double row of washbasins 4 adolescent girls are studying learning materials, the 2 front ones while seated on the lips of the washbasins, their feet plunged into water. There are trees in the background.
Location: Ouagadougou.

French transcription: Vie rurale - cette femme et sa petite fille transportent chaque jour, dans ces récipients, l'eau ou le lait nécessaires à leur consommation.
Description: A rural village, perhaps an area devoted to the building and repair of wooden horse-drawn carts. A woman and a child are walking towards the photographer. Both are carrying water or milk pots on their heads: the girl, a ceramic pot, and the woman, a two-piece metalic pot, crowned with coils of rope. The woman is shading her eyes from the sun.

French transcription: Bassin de l'Indus. Irrigation près du barrage de Rasul.
Description: In the foreground, an embankment channeling water for irrigation purposes. And, in the background, two men walking together, followed by a leashed dromedary.

French transcription: Citernes en zone rurale. Canaux de récupération des eaux de ruissellement.
Description: A water tank on the right. Small buildings on the back. We can see a few people around the tank and lot of vegetation and trees. There is a car further down.
Location: Fogo.

English transcription: At the request of the Governments of Algeria and Tunisia, a study of the ground water resources of the Northern Sahara was undertaken by UNESCO, acting as the executing Agency for the United Nations Development Programme. According to the experts, this immense territory of 500,000 sq. miles contains sufficient underground water to guarantee the agricultural development of double the existing irrigated land which could conceivably create 20,000 to 30,000 new jobs by the year 2000. Traditional foggaras sometimes several kilometers long feed ground water to the irrigation canals.
French transcription: À la demande des gouvernements algérien et tunisien, une étude des ressources en eau du sous-sol du Sahara septentrional a été entreprise par le Programme des Nations-Unies pour le développement dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution. Selon les experts, cet immense territoire de 800.000 km2 recèle toute l'eau nécessaire pour garantir le développement hydro-agricole en doublant la surface des terres irriguées et pour favoriser la création de 20.000 à 30.000 emplois nouveaux d'ici à l'an 2000. Longue de plusieurs kilomètres, cette foggara(galerie drainante traditionnelle) permet d'acheminer l'eau souterraine aux canaux d'irrigation.
Description: The water flows down a low wall through a sort of stone comb dividing the water into different channels.

English transcription: Village women wash ustensils in the Nile the river of life. Nearly fifty per cent of child mortality in Egypt is linked to the use of polluted water (from unprotected wells canals and the Nile).
French transcription: Au bord du fleuve, près d'un arbre, deux femmes vêtues d'habits traditionnels sont assises. L'une fait la vaisselle, l'autre, près de son tas de linge, fait la lessive.

English transcription: Arid zones modern seguia used as a watering-place for camels.
French transcription: Zones arides seguia moderne servant d'abreuvoir pour les chameaux.
Description: In the desert. In the foreground, several camels drinking in a water channel. In the background, we can also see other animals.
Location: Goulimine area.

English transcription: The recent discovery of a deep artesian well gives a completely revised picture of the future development of this region of the Sahara desert. Experimental borings have released high pressure jets of water at a temperature of 60°C which is already being used in the irrigation channels of the region. Shown here are some of these irrigation channels, also used by sheep and goats as watering troughs.
French transcription: La nappe albienne (nappe d'eau fossile) constitue la plus importante des richesses du sous-sol saharien. Des forages ont permis d'exploiter cette eau qui, canalisée pour l'irrigation, rend ainsi peu à peu la vie à ce grand désert. Ici, l'un de ces canaux employé à l'irrigation des champs de céréales de la cuvette de M'rara et qui sert aussi d'abreuvoir aux animaux élevés par les nomades de la région.
Description: In the desert. A group of sheeps and goats near and in the water. A few men watching the animals and walking along the water.
Location: near Touggourt.

English transcription: Many of the villages in the Atlas Mountains have no water supplies. To remedy this, small dams and canals are being built which will help conserve and control water from the mountain streams. Shown here is one of the canals.
French transcription: Dans l'Atlas central, un grand nombre de villages ne sont pas encore alimentés en eau. Pour y remédier, on construit de petits barrages ou des canaux pour retenir les eaux des rivières de montagne. Ici, un canal.
Description: Dans les montagnes, un homme vêtu d'habits traditionnels, marche le long d'un petit muret qui borde un canal. Un mur plus important borde l'autre côté du canal. Dans le fond, des arbres et un poteau.
Location: Ourika, near Marrakesh.

English transcription: A PHC worker explains benefits of basic hygiene to a young mother in a Guayaquil slum.
Description: Two young boys playing with a basin full of water. In the background, a woman washing clothes in a raised basin and looking another woman holding papers.
Location: Guayaquil.

English transcription: The Tassili des Ajjer is a vast rocky sandstone plateau which, due to its altitude (5,000 ft.), has a comparatively humid climate. Because of this, the plateau is one of the rare zones in the Algerian south where vegetation has survived - in the main, cypresses and wild olive trees. Its inhabitants, the Touareg Ajjer, are nomadic shepherds. Watering camels at a guelta in the bed of the Wadi Initinen. Gueltas are river-bed holes deep enough to trap and retain the region's infrequent and precious rainwater.
French transcription: Le Tassili des Ajjer est un vaste plateau de gré dont l'altitude relativement élevée (1500 m) lui confère une humidité qui a permis la survie d'une rare végétation (principalement cyprès et oliviers). Cette région est habitée par les Touareg Ajjer, nomades vivant des ressources que leur offrent leurs troupeaux de chèvres. Ici, chameaux à l'abreuvoir dans une guelta de l'oued Initinen. Les gueltas sont des trous d'eau qui subsistent lorsque l'oued s'assèche après les rares pluies qui tombent au Sahara.
Description: Birds-eye view. Camels carrying supplies and drinking water in a rocky desert landscape. Two men are beside the camels.
Location: Tassili des Ajjer.

French transcription: Pêcheurs et balsas sur le lac Titicaca.
Description: A man standing on a small boat and holding a long stick dipped in water. In the foreground, a traditional boat. In the background, a mountain range.
Location: Hauts-Plateaux.

English transcription: A rain-water reservoir, created by the Ministry of Agriculture, irrigates the dry lands of Northern Chana. Owing to this reservoir it is possible to grow vegetable throughout the year. View of part of the reservoir.
French transcription: Un réservoir recueillant les eaux de pluie a été créé par le Ministère de l'Agriculture, afin d'irriguer cette zone extrêmement sèche du Ghana septentrional. Grâce à cette réalisation, il a été possible de faire pousser des légumes en toutes saisons. Vue partielle du réservoir.
Description: Women with naked children standing or sitting near a water area. Buckets and jugs are on the ground. There are trees in the background and on the right.
Location: Doba.

English transcription: Transport of water.
French transcription: Transport de l'eau.
Description: Un jeune homme monté sur un âne qui transporte des jarres dans des paniers. Au second plan, des murs crènelés et des arbres et des palmier.
Location: Erfoud.

English transcription: The United Nations Development Programme has concluded an agreement with the Government of India to assist it in the establishment of a training centre in the Regional Engineering College, Warrangal, for teachers of eight regional engineering colleges. UNESCO is responsible for the implementation of this project which is intended to improve the quality of instruction and specialised studies as well as to develop research. Administrative buildings of the Warrangal Engineering College.
French transcription: Le Programme des Nations-Unies pour le Développement a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement de l'Inde pour établir à Warrangal un Centre de Formation d'Enseignants pour les huit écoles régionales de Formation d'Ingénieurs en Inde. L'UNESCO est l'agence responsable de ce programme, qui tend à améliorer l'enseignement et à développer la recherche et la spécialisation dans les différents domaines de la technique. Bâtiments administratifs du Centre de Formation des Ingénieurs à Warrangal.
Description: Près d'un point d'eau, trois jeune femmes, pieds nus et vêtues de tenues traditionnelles, portent des cruches sur leur tête. Dans le fond, un bâtiment moderne.
Location: Warrangal.

English transcription: A nordestino (Inhabitant of the north-eastern arid zone) drawing water from a well sunk in the alluvium of the rio Serido.
French transcription: Un nordestino (habitant du nord-est aride) puisant de l'eau dans un puits creusé dans les alluvions du rio Serido.
Description: Deep inside a hole, a man is filling barrels with water through a funnel.
Location: Parelhas - State of Rio Grande de Norte.

English transcription: Bathtime for the children of a Philippine fisherman's family.
French transcription: Le bain des enfants dans une famille de pêcheurs Philippins.
Description: A man and a woman washing two little boys using cups filled with water. On the floor, a water basin and a bucket. We can see a ladder so the house has a raised floor.
Location: Binmaley (Pangasinan).

English transcription: Kuwait City Water Distillation and Power Plant. Installation for pumping see water.
French transcription: Installations de distillation d'eau de mer et Centrale de Kuwait City. Installation de pompage de l'eau de mer.
Description: A sort of house on the sea. Several pipes above the sea. Boats in the background.
Location: Kuwait City.

English transcription: Extract from the book "Precious Waters". UNESCO Press - 1981.
French transcription: Extrait du livre "Eaux Rares". Les Presses de l'UNESCO - 1981.
Description: In the foreground, two boys kneeling on a beach reading from a book or manual. In the background, small waves on the water and five small fishing boats. UNESCO Press book Eaux rares Photographies or Precious waters photographs 1981.
Location: Gaza.

English transcription: Portuguese Cistern (16th Century) underground hall (supported by columns) of the Castillo Real designed to store rainwater.
French transcription: La Citerne portugaise (XVIe siècle) salle souterraine du Castillo Real supportée par des colonnes et destinée à emmagasiner l'eau de pluie.
Description: Vast hall full of water and supported by pillars. We can see the reflection of the all structure in the water because of the skylights.
Location: El Jadida (Mazagan).

English transcription: A primitive well.
French transcription: Un puits primitif.
Description: A woman, on the edge of a well, is drawing water with a bucket linked to a rope. There's a ladder leaning against the wall of the well. The woman is bare foot. A jug is behind her.
Location: Guidamana.

French transcription: Vie quotidienne de Touaregs du Hoggar, Algérie.
Description: A young boy is pouring water from a bucket linked to a rope going around a pulley. There are several buckets full of water on the ground. Woods are around the well-hole.
Location: Hoggar.

Description: Boy getting water out of a spicket into a mug.

French transcription: Réservoirs d'eau.
Description: Photo prise du sol. Vue de dessous de neuf réservoirs d'eau.

English transcription: Persepolis was founded during the reign of Darius I about 500 B.C. and is the cradle of the Persian Empire. Daily chores. In the background are the ancient ruins of Persepolis.
French transcription: Persépolis qui fut fondée par Darius Ier, environ 500 ans avant J.C., est le berceau de l'Empire Perse. Scène de la vie quotidienne devant les ruines antiques.
Description: On a river, a woman in a crouching position and washing dishes. In the backgroung, the ancient ruins of Persepolis.
Location: Persepolis.

English transcription: Bahr el Yussuf Canal built during the 12th dynasty of the Pharaons.
French transcription: Le canal de Bahr el Yussuf construit sous la 12e dynastie des pharaons.
Description: Two children near a water canal. One of them is filling a jug from a drinking water fountain. The other child has a jug on top of the head. Historic monument in the background.
Location: Medinet el Fayum.

English transcription: UNESCO is advising the Peruvian Government on problems relating to its arid zones. Picture shows, worker irrigating field of lucerne. Irrigation is being tried as experiment to see if such methods will produce growth on arid land.
Description: In a field, a man with rubber work boots and feet in water is digging soil with a shovel.
Location: San Felipe.

English transcription: Windmill (catavento) used for draining water from the brackish marshes of the rio Grande do Norte.
French transcription: Roue éolienne (Catavento) pour élever l'eau dans les marais salants près du Rio Grande do Norte.
Description: In isolated area. A windmill in the salt marshes.
Location: Mossoro.

French transcription: Centre national de recherches océanographiques (CNRO). Études sur la salinité de l'eau.
Description: Dans un laboratoire, un homme portant une blouse fait face à une table sur laquelle sont posés des béchers et tube à essai. Une sorte d'alambic est prêt pour une expérience.
Location: Nosy-Bé.

English transcription: Research on the utilization of saline water for irrigation. This project is assisted by UNESCO under the United Nations Special Fund Programme. Meterorological observation at the experimental station.
French transcription: Recherches sur l'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation (Projet du Fonds Spécial des Nations-Unies, dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution). Observation météorologique à la station expérimentale.
Description: A man adjusting a heliograph. He is wearing sun glasses and is smoking. In the background a building.
Location: Cherfech (Medjerdah Valley).

English transcription: Research on the utilization of saline water for irrigation. This project is assisted by UNESCO under the United Nations Special Fund Programme. Meteorological observation at the experimental station.
French transcription: Recherches sur l'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation (Projet du Fonds Spécial des Nations-Unies, dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution). Observation météorologique à la station expérimentale.
Description: A man adjusting instruments inside a meteorological shelter. He is wearing sun glasses and he is smoking.
Location: Cherfech (Medjerdah Valley).

English transcription: Project for training and research in the utilisation of saline water in irrigation. This United Nations Development Programme has concluded an agreement with the Government of Tunisia to work out the rules for irrigation with saline water in Tunisian cultivation and to train Tunisian engineers and technicians in this field. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of this Project. In the central research laboratory at El Ariane in Tunis.
French transcription: Project pour la recherche sur l’utilisation des eaux salées. Le Programme des Nations-Unies pour le Développement - dont l’UNESCO est l’agent d’exécution - a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement tunisien afin d’étudier les conditions d’utilisation des eaux salées pour l’irrigation des terres cultivables en Tunisie et pour former des ingénieurs et des techniciens dans ce domaine. Laboratoire central de recherches à El Arians, Tunis.
Description: In a laboratory three expert researchers are working. They are studying samples of earth stacked in boxes and salt in pots.

English transcription: Project for training and research in the utilization of saline water in irrigation. The United Nations Development Program has concluded agreement with the Government of Tunisia to work out the rules for irrigation with saline water in Tunisian cultivation and to train Tunisian engineers and technicians in this field. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of this Project. Experimental ground in the Medjerda region.
French transcription: Project pour la recherche sur l'utilisation des eaux salées. Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement - dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution- a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement tunisien afin d'étudier les conditions d'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation des terres cultivables en Tunisie et pour former des ingénieurs et des techniciens dans ce domaine. Terrain expérimental dans la Madjerda.
Description: A man is out in a field and is checking for saline in the water. There is a pipeline in the background, fence in the foreground and a well where the water is coming from. It does not look like a populated area. Black/white contrast makes it seem cold.

English transcription: Project for training and research in the utilization of saline water in irrigation. The United Nations Development Programme has concluded an agreement with the Government of Tunisia to work out the rules for irrigation with saline water in Tunisian cultivation and to train Tunisian engineers and technicians in the field. UNESCO has responsibility for the implementation of this Project. View of Tozeur experimental station.
French transcription: Projet de pour la recherche sur l'utilisation des l'eaux salées. Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement - dont l'UNESCO est l’agent d'exécution - a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement tunisien afin d’étudier les conditions d’utilisation des l'eaux salées pour l’irrigation des terres cultivables en Tunisie et pour former des ingénieurs et des techniciens dans ce domaine. Vue de la station l’irrigation expérimentale de Tozeur.
Description: Three men sit around a box under a palm tree. The tree is one of many in a row of palms, and in the background are many other rows. Irrigation channels are organized around the rows of palm trees.
Location: Tozeur.

English transcription: Research on the utilization of saline water for irrigation. This project is assisted by UNESCO under the United Nations Special Funds Programme. Canal carrying water from the Medjerdah to the Experimental Station.
French transcription: Recherches sur l'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation (Projet du Fonds Spécial des Nations-Unies dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution). Canal d'amenée des eaux de la Medjerdah à la Station expérimentale.
Description: Image of a canal carrying water as part of an irrigation system.
Location: Cherfech (Medjerdah Valley).

English transcription: Project for training and research in the utilization of saline water in irrigation. The United Nations Development Programme has concluded an agreement with the Government of Tunisia to work out the rules for irrigation with saline water in tunisian cultivation and to train tunisian engineers and technicians in this field. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of the Project. Drainage ditch at the Tozeur experimental station.
French transcription: Projet pour la recherche l'utilisation des eaux salées. Le Programme des Nations-Unies pour le Développement (dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution) a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement tunisien afin d'étudier les conditions d'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation des terres cultivables en Tunisie et pour former des ingénieurs et des techniciens dans ce domaine. Canal d'irrigation à la station expérimentale de Tozeur.
Description: Man standing on the edge of a drainage ditch. Along it lot of palm trees.

English transcription: Project for training and research and the utilization of saline water in irrigation. The United Nations Development Programme has concluded an agreement with the Government of Tunisia to work out the rules for irrigation with saline water in Tunisian cultivation and to train Tunisian engineers and technicians in this field. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of this Project. Experimental ground in irrigation, area of Cherfech.
French transcription: Projet pour la recherche sur l'utilisation des eaux salées. Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement - dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution - a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement tunisien afin d'étudier les conditions d'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation des terres cultivables dans ce domaine. Champ expérimental d'irrigation près de Cherfech.
Description: Vue d'un champ labouré, un petit panneau planté au début de la parcelle indique T1D2. On aperçoit d'autre panneaux ainsi que des pilones en béton plantés régulièrement dans le champ.

English transcription: Research on the utilisation of saline water for irrigation. This project is assisted by UNESCO under the United Nations Special Fund Programme. An outlet carrier of water drained at the Experimental Station.
French transcription: Recherches sur l'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation (Projet du Fonds Spécial des Nations Unies, dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution). Emissaire véhiculant les eaux de drainage à la Station expérimentale.
Description: Dans une plaine, on voit un canal qui s’emplit d'eau grâce à une énorme tuyau. Au loin, on aperçoit des arbustes, des fleurs et au loin une sorte d'usine.
Location: Cherfech, Medjerdah Valley.

English transcription: Research on the utilisation of saline water for irrigation. This project is assisted by UNESCO under the United Nations Special Fund Programme. Canal carrying water from the Medjerdah to the Experimental Station.
French transcription: Recherches sur l'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation (Projet du Fonds Spécial des Nations Unies, dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution). Canal d'amenée des eaux de la Medjerdah à la Station expérimentale.
Description: Dans une plaine avec des fleurs sauvages, un canal en béton armé s'étale. Il est soutenu par des piliers en béton. Derrière une route et un arbre.
Location: Cherfech, Medjerdah Valley.

English transcription: Project for training and research in the utilization of saline water in irrigation. The United Nations Development Programme has concluded an agreement with the Government of Tunisia to work out the rules for irrigation with saline water in Tunisian cultivation and to train Tunisian engineers and technicians in this field. UNESCO has the responsability for the implementation of this Project. Irrigation plot at Cherfech.
French transcription: Projet pour la recherche sur l'utilisation des eaux salées. Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement - dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution - a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement tunisien afin d'étudier les conditions d'utilisation des eaux salées pour l'irrigation des terres cultivables en Tunisie et pour former des ingénieurs et des techniciens dans ce domaine. Parcelle d'irrigation à Cherfech.
Description: Dans une plaine caillouteuse, un tuyau déverse de l'eau dans un canal. Au loin, on peut apercevoir quelques maisons.

English transcription: Southern Rhodesia - 1961. Kariba Lake mammal research - trapping small mice to check the effects of the rising waters, a result of the Kariba Dam Project.
French transcription: Rhodésie du Sud - 1961. Recherches sur les mammifères dans la région du Lao Kariba. Ici, on attrape de petites souris pour vérifier les effets de la montée des eaux du Projet de barrage du Kariba.
Description: View of two men. One holds a dead mouse in his hand above a hole. The second man holds a notebook and a pen and is watching the mouse. There are several dead mice on the ground, aligned. They are outside.
Location: Southern Rhodesia.

French transcription: Extrait de l'Album "EAUX RARES". Publié par les Presses de l'UNESCO 1981.
Description: A man wearing a cat escorts a camel towards the right side of the photo from the rear. The camel is attached to a rope which in turn is connected to a well, raising the bucket. Next to the well another man overlooks the operation. The left side of the path is laid with palm leaves which appear to be folded over near the stems.

English transcription: Weizmann Scientific Institute. A specialist in crystallography at work in the laboratory.
French transcription: Institut Weizmann des sciences. Un spécialiste au laboratoire de cristallographie.
Description: Dans un laboratoire, un homme avec une blouse et des lunettes est face à un alambic. Il prend des notes et observe le processus.
Location: Rehevet.