Peasant woman tidying up grains drying on her house terrace, Nagarkot, Nepal

Backpacker walking across dried up lake towards Llaima volcano, Conguillio National Park, Chile, South America

Octopuses hung up to dry on washing lines, Chania, Crete, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Octopus hung up to dry in harbour of Oia village, Santorini, Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Tobacco leaves hung up to dry, Vinales Valley, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cuba, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Close up of Bresaola, the typical raw beef cured by salting and air-drying, on white background, Valtellina, Lombardy, Italy, Europe

Cutting up blubber and meat of white whale for drying, Eskimo whaling camp, taken in the 1970s, Beaufort Sea, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows A Medicin Sans Frontieres clinic in Makhanga testing local people for malaria, many of whom proved positive for the disease, as a result of the drying up flood waters providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

January 2015 saw a three day period of excessive rain which brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows A Medicin Sans Frontieres clinic in Makhanga providing Malaria treatment drugs to local people, many of whom now have malaria, as a result of the drying up flood waters providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

January 2015 saw a three day period of excessive rain which brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows A Medicin Sans Frontieres clinic in Makhanga testing local people, many of whom now have malaria, as a result of the drying up flood waters providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

Cloth hanging up to dry in the dyers souk in Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Honduras maize drying, hung up outside a farmhouse of marcala

Honduras maize drying, hung up outside a farmhouse of marcala

Aerial view of saltmarsh at low tide near Cadiz, Spain

Thirlmere reservoir during a hosepipe ban in effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Footprints in the mud at Thirlmere reservoir during a hosepipe ban in effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thirlmere reservoir the day before a hosepipe ban came into effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thirlmere reservoir the day before a hosepipe ban came into effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thirlmere reservoir the day before a hosepipe ban came into effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thirlmere reservoir the day before a hosepipe ban came into effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thirlmere reservoir the day before a hosepipe ban came into effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Mudcracks in the Coto Donana, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

Footprints in the mud at Thirlmere reservoir during a hosepipe ban in effect in the North West, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Chilies hanging up to dry in northern China, Asia

A cairn built on rocks that would noramlly be under water and a dry stone wall that was submerged when the reservoir was built. Thirlmere Reservoir, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Close up of piles in salt flats

Close up of senior African man with towel

street scene, in Dasaswamedh Ghat, Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Tending the Laundry for drying, Dasaswamedh Ghat, in Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Close up on dried red chili peppers, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia

Dried fish, Fish hung up for drying, Ilimanaq, Klaushavn, Kaalalit Nunaat, Greenland

Dried fish, Fish hung up for drying, Ilimanaq, Klaushavn, Kaalalit Nunaat, Greenland

Rice paper production, rice paper drying up in the sunlight, Mekong Delta, Can Tho Province, Vietnam, Asia

Cracked mud in a dried up water hole, Painted Desert, Hopi Reservation, Navajo Nation Reservation, Arizona, Southwest, United States of America, USA, North America

Cuttlefish, drying in the sun in front of a fishing boat, Naoussa, Cyclades, Greece.

Cracks in red soil, Lausitz, Germany

Fish drying in the sun on the island La Graciosa, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

Lumber storage at a sawmill, lumber industry

Stacked logs, lumber industry

Cayenne pepper dryed Amalfi coast Campania Italy Italia chili

Stacks of peat sods left to dry, peat harvesting, Nicklheim, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Stacks of peat sods left to dry, peat harvesting, Nicklheim, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Stacks of peat sods left to dry, peat harvesting, Nicklheim, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

A child's soft toy hanging on washing line to dry after being washed

Vanilla capsules (Vanilla planifolia) drying, Manakara, East Coast, Madagascar, Africa

Cod caught in the Barents Sea, dried fish production, Reine, Island, of Moskenesoya, Lofoten Islands, North Norway, Norway, Europe

Cracks in clay soil, Madeira, Portugal

Impacts of climate change, dried soil at the edge of a drying up watering hole, Gran Chaco, Salta province, Argentina, South America

Octopuses hung up to dry on washing lines, Plaka beach, Crete, Greece, Europe

Cracked mud in a dried up water hole, Painted Desert, Hopi Reservation, Navajo Nation Reservation, Arizona, Southwest, United States of America, USA, North America

Peat briquettes stacked to dry on piles in front of a peat briquettes factory, near Birr, Offaly, Midlands, Ireland, Europe

Clothes on Line and Architecture of the Italian Village Roccatederighi Tuscany Italy

Saffron flowers drying in the open air, Luang Prabang, Laos, Southeast Asia

Close-up of traditional food drying, Luang Prabang, Laos

Octopus hung up at a restaurant in Skala Eresou, Lesbos, Greece.

Local senior man drying up excrement in front of the Alborz Mountain range, Alamut, Iran

Man walking up Thufa grassy dome with fish drying house on top (art installation by Olof Nordal), Reykjavik, Iceland

Man walking up Thufa grassy dome with fish drying house on top (art installation by Olof Nordal), Reykjavik, Iceland

Turkey, Aydin Province, Kusadasi, Strings of brightly coloured chilies hanging up to dry in late afternoon summer sunshine

Japanese woman outside a textile plant dye workshop, hanging up freshly dyed bright yellow fabric, Kyushu, Japan

Close up of sheep hide stretched out to cure on a mountainside, Mongolia

High angle close up of cheese-making, Camembert cheese drying in cool storage on wire racks, Vietnam

man cutting pieces of peat piled up for drying and prepared for transportation Lower Saxony Germany

pieces of peat piled up for drying and prepared for transportation Lower Saxony Germany

pieces of peat piled up for drying and prepared for transportation Lower Saxony Germany