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Water is everywhere, which is fortunate for all of humanity, as water is essential for life. Even though water is not always available in the needed quantity and quality for all people everywhere, people have learned to get and use water for all of their water needs, from drinking, cleaning, irrigating crops, producing electricity, and for just having fun.

• Aqueducts have been around since Roman times
• A wastewater-treatment plant
• Irrigated land seen from space
• Center-pivot irrigation system
• Drip-irrigation system
• Coal-fired thermoelectric power plant
• Water use at a thermoelectric power plant
• Diagram of a thermoelectric power plant
• A turbine in a hydroelectric power plant
• Water use at an industrial site
• Water use for fish farming
• Hydraulic mining use of water, Alaska  
• Treating wastewater can produce clean water
• World's largest hydroelectric facility
• Using saline water to produce table salt
• Hydraulic mining, California, 1870s
• Aqueducts supply water to thirsty regions