Monkeys, deer and rabbits have descended on villages looking for water, while some villagers in Nellore have taken to using a bear to find water sources.
Canadian accounts go back a year earlier, to 1858, when a businessman named James Miller Williams decided to dig a well for drinking water outside the town of Bear Creek, Ontario.
UNESCO, and specifically the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC) and the International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO-IHP) bring their expertise and their scientific content to bear around issues related to water.