Today is World Water Day, declared by the UN in 1992 and first observed the following year. Humanity could no longer drift along—we had to safeguard the very currents that keep us alive. Few places capture that urgency like Lake Tanganyika, in the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa. From space, it"s a roughly 420‑mile ribbon linking Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. At the shoreline, it"s a 10-million-year-old rift basin, formed as the Earth"s crust slowly pulled apart.
World Water Day
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria, England
-
Khao Sok National Park in Thailand
-
Meandering through Patagonia
-
Glacial rivers in Iceland
-
World Space Week begins
-
Happy Holi!
-
American bison
-
Field of kochia plants, China
-
Midnight sun
-
International Beaver Day
-
Cousins Day
-
Shark Fin Cove, California
-
Up on the glacier
-
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
-
Happy Independence Day!
-
Great white egret, Upper Bavaria, Germany
-
Grizzly bears in Alaska for National Wildlife Day
-
Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
-
Wildlife crossing near Zakrzów, Poland
-
Giving Tuesday
-
Borovets ski resort in Bulgaria
-
The lights of Paris
-
Perfect timing
-
The lemurs of Madagascar
-
National Park Week: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
-
Let us introduce you…
-
A castle fit for a count
-
From the mind of Frank Gehry
-
The confluence of the Arve and Rhône Rivers
-
Native American Heritage Month
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

