Water Security Action Team by JICA Volunteers>> 

In order to deliver safe water to people in Africa, I will introduce the activities of JICA volunteers working with Africans.

This exhibit is based on the by-product of climate change. A thousand words are not enough to describe the situation in Shatkhira, Bangladesh. It would be an understatement to say that the region is going through condition similar to a post-war phase. After the great catastrophic tornado Aila in 2009...

As with most old cities, Dhaka was also founded on a riverbank.  In pre-modern time, a river for a city was the real lifeline--being the most effective transport system for it besides supplying its water and being its sewer system. Likewise, Dhaka grew rapidly on the banks of the Buriganga...

Drinking water is life's most basic need. Yet nearly a billion people on our planet do not have access to it. For the past five years I have traveled to over 15 countries making portraits of people affected by lack of clean water, including the Samburu in north Kenya, whose portraits here bring a human face...

Almost 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to basic water sanitation and water supply infrastructure. This means 40% of the world's population, according to the UN. Lack of these basic resources is related to the transmission of diseases such as cholera, dysentery, hepatitis...

The theme of this exhibition grew in my mind from my recent journeys to India over the last two years. It was that of the sacred, almost always connected with water, the primordial element which underlies creation myths. I followed the courses of the main sacred rivers of India, the Ganges from...

The small Republic of Kiribati, consisting of 33 atolls and situated in the Equatorial Pacific, is slowly and surely going down. Storm surges, freakish waves, salination of fresh water wells and lands, unpredictable weather and ...

Comprising over 70% of the earth's surface, water is undoubtedly the most precious natural resource that exists on our planet. Without the seemingly invaluable compound comprised of hydrogen and oxygen, life on earth would be non-existent: it is essential for everything on our planet to grow and...

2012 saw an increase in cell phone subscriptions to almost six billion, while one in six people globally still lacks clean drinking water. While technology is growing at an astounding rate, it also broadens the gap between the developed world and the developing one. Important projects concerning ...

Bhopal is not yet at peace. Twenty-eight years have passed since the 1984 gas disaster, caused by the American corporation Union Carbide, but many families are still trapped in the nightmare that began on that distant night. Half a million people were exposed to the toxic cloud released from the ...

On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake, that recorded as 9.0 on the Richter scale struck off the coast Japan. It was followed by a devastating tsunami that swept over cities, farmland, and port in the northern part of the country. It was the most powerful quake ever to hit the country. Along with...

The Aral Sea, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was one of the world's largest lakes in size. Aral means "Sea of islands."  There used to be more than 1,534 islands on the lake. The Aral Sea had a great importance for fishing industry, especially with respect to a high quality...

Buriganga is the river flowing besides Dhaka city and serving nearly 20 million people which gave the rise to Dhaka city over 400 years ago. Launches and country boats provide connection to other parts of the country through Sadarghat Launch Terminal.  Apart from that, the whole river...

On assignment for Time magazine to shoot iPhone images for upload in real time to the Time magazine Instagram feed, Ed Kashi covered the incoming storm and some of its devastating aftermath in New Jersey. From images in his hometown of Montclair, N.J., where neighbors lost their home to a fallen...

New York has seen a few storms but none with the power, and devastation like Hurricane Sandy. New Yorkers watched for days as the storm slowly, inexorably, made its way up the eastern seaboard. In the beginning Sandy was just a undistinguished category 1 storm with 75-mph winds just barely qualifying...

"It is difficult to see the yield spoil before our eyes. Whatever we have left and can collect is satisfying to some extent," says Abul Kashem, a farmer. More than 90% of arable land in Jingabuta Haor was flooded when the onrush of water from the Dhanu river broke down the...

Joanna Lipper traveled to Zanzibar in the summer of 2009 to photograph women of diverse religious, ethnic, and economic backgrounds in both urban and rural settings. While in Zanzibar, Joanna Lipper visited Jambiani,...