Civic workers remove dead fish floating at a partially dried up lake in Ambattur, Chennai. Many water bodies in the city are running dry in hot weather.

Water pipes lie abandoned at the back waters of Ujani Dam due to scarcity of water at Palasdev village bridge on Pune-Solapur Highway, in Palasdev.

A pup searches for water on a dried-up river bed leading to acute water shortage at Tiruneermalai, near Chennai.

A man walks on the dried-up bed of Shivsagar Lake (Koyna backwaters) on a hot summer day, in Satara, Maharashtra.

Cracked soil lines the Rio Grande on the northern edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The irrigation canals are all but dry as farmers along the river are setting in for winter, holdi...