Photos, Illustrations and other Images

Floods in Northeastern India - Images from NASA
NASA's Earth Observatory website has striking pictures of flooding on Brahmaputra in September, 2007. Posted on 04 Nov, 2007 02:29 PM

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured images of flooded Brahmaputra River.

NASA satellite tracks changes in Earth's freshwater distribution
Recent space observations of freshwater storage by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) are providing a new picture of how Earth's most precious natural resource is distributed globally and how it is changing. Posted on 04 Nov, 2007 02:19 PM

(Image taken from the NASA page mentioned below) Several African basins, such as the Congo, Zambezi and Nile, show significant drying over the past five years. In the United States, the Mississippi and Colorado River basins show water storage increases during that time.

UNDP posters on water
UNDP posters on water Posted on 29 Oct, 2007 09:58 PM

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