UN Photobanks and Photo Galleries

This section provides a selection of UN water and sanitation related photobanks and photo galleries.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

>> Photo gallery: Dealing with Drought. A selection of photos on drought in the Horn of Africa.
>> Other FAO photo galleries

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

>> IAEA ImageBank. Type the search term "water" to retrieve water-related photos.

United Nations Photobank

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>> Photo selection: Water
Keywords: Access to water, Children, Droughts, Energy, Floods, Food, Informal settlements, Sanitation, Water quality, Water scarcity.
>> Photo stories: Pakistan floods
Keywords: Floods.
>> Photo stories: 'This beautiful, fragile Earth'
Keywords: Drought, Ice
>> Photo stories: World Water Day 2009. One Earth, Limited Resources: Sharing water across borders
Keywords: Access to water, Droughts, Gender, Health, Transboundary waters, Water quality, Water scarcity.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

>> Photo essay: Children and water
Keywords: Access to water, Children, Droughts, Gender, Health, Hygiene, Rural, Sanitation, Water quality, Youth.
>> Photo essay: Drought in northern Kenya
Keywords: Africa, Children, Droughts, Food.
>> Photo essay: Drought in southern Somalia
Keywords: Africa, Children, Drought.
>> Pakistan's children after the floods
Keywords: Asia, Children, Floods.
>> Photo essay: Progress for Children: Water and Sanitation
Keywords: Access to water, Children, Droughts, Floods, Health, Hygiene, Sanitation, Urbanization, Water quality, Water scarcity.
>> Photo essay: Surviving Pakistan's floods
Keywords: Asia, Children, Floods, Health, Sanitation, Water quality.
>> Photo essay: Water and sanitation in Darfur's camps
Keywords: Access to water, Africa, Children, Gender, Sanitation.
>> Photo essay: West and Central Africa's sanitation crisis- Part I of II
Keywords: Access to water, Africa, Education, Hygiene, Informal settlements, Sanitation.
>> Photo essay: West and Central Africa's sanitation crisis- Part II of II
Keywords: Africa, Children, Health, Hygiene.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

>> UNESCO Photobank. Introduce the search term "water" to retrieve water-related photos.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

>> Deserts and Desertification – Don't Desert Drylands!
Keywords: Desertification, Drylands.
>> Global Outlook for Ice and Snow. A selection of high resolution photos from the report 'Global Outlook for Ice and Snow' (2007).
Keywords: Climate change, Ice, Snow.
>> Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!
Keywords: Access to water, Droughts, Floods, Water quality, Water scarcity.
>> World Environment Day 2007: Arctic and polar images. A selection of photos from the polar regions.
Keywords: Climate change, Ice, Snow.
>> World Environment Day 2007: Climate change. A selection of evocative images of climate change impacts on water.
Keywords: Climate change.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)

Free downloadable photos; acknowledge the source by marking the images with Copyright © UN-HABITAT.

>> Photo gallery: Water Sanitation and Infrastructure Photos
Keywords: Access to water, Cities, Education, Gender, Hygiene, Informal settlements, Sanitation, Water infrastructure, Water quality.
>> Photo gallery: Risk and Disaster Management Photos
Keywords: Disaster reduction, Floods.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

>> OCHA Photo gallery: Climate change
Keywords: Climate change, Droughts, Floods.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

>> UNFPA Photo library. Type the search terms "water" and/or "sanitation".

UN-Water

>> World Water Day 2011 Photo Galleries
Keywords: Urbanisation, Urban areas, Water, Sanitation.
>> World Water Day 2010 Photo Galleries
Keywords: Ecosystems, Health, Water quality.
>> World Water Day 2009 Photo Galleries
Keywords: Transboundary waters.
>> World Water Day 2008 Photo Gallery 1
Keywords: Access to water, Health, Hygiene, Sanitation.
>> World Water Day 2008 Photo Gallery 2
Keywords: Access to water, Health, Hygiene, Sanitation.

World Bank

>> Climate change collection. An extensive photo gallery on climate change, including some on climate change impacts on water.
Keywords: Climate change.
>> World Bank Photolibrary. Type the search term "water" to retrieve water-related photos.