Water carrier

Southern Africa | Woman with a pitcher of water. Angola. 1940s

What if you had to do this everyday just to provide water for your family?

The inaugural special exhibition, From One Louvre to Another: opening a museum for everyone, traces the history of Musée du Louvre in Paris. Divided into three sections, the exhibition will look at the royal collections at Versailles under King Louis XIV,…

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This postcard was printed between 1903 and 1959. This postcard has variants, which the Newberry defines to include: textured versus untextured cards; any...

Early Filipino Woman, beautiful typical Filipina a maiden probably.shes a water carrier during 1913 Philippines Euphrosyne Myrgth Discover Old Philippines A.C McClurg Chicago

A Japanese farmer wearing a mino (straw raincoat) and a sugegasa conical hat is carrying a pole with buckets of (probably) night soil. Early 1880s. Night soil was collected from private homes and used as fertilizer.

Australian Aboriginal water carrier. These were made from a Bangalow palm leaf base by the Midginbil people of the Mt. Warning caldera who utilised the extensive Bangalow palm forests in their territory for many resources, including creating vessels for carrying food, water, babies & equipment. This basket is in the Midginbil Museum, Midginbil Drive, South Tweed Heads.

With a few simple modifications, the same five-gallon barrels used for storage can be repurposed to solve a major barrier to clean water access for millions of people.