Feet washing ritual during Maundy Thursday celebration in a Catholic church, Paris, France, Europe

Washing beside the drain pumping water from the Nile to supply a crop irrigation channel around the village of Ramadi, west bank of the Nile south of Edfu, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Washing hands

Hispanic man splashing water on face in bathroom

Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan

Hair salon chair with towel armchair

Red illuminated main staircase in the new Ruhrmuseum museum, opened in January 2010, Capital of Culture year, in the former coal washing plant of the Zeche Zollverein mine, World Heritage Site, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

DEU, Germany: Cleaning of dishes by hand in a private kitchen.

Red illuminated main staircase in the new Ruhrmuseum museum, opened in January 2010, Capital of Culture year, in the former coal washing plant of the Zeche Zollverein mine, World Heritage Site, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Red illuminated main staircase in the new Ruhrmuseum museum, opened in January 2010, Capital of Culture year, in the former coal washing plant of the Zeche Zollverein mine, World Heritage Site, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Red illuminated main staircase in the new Ruhrmuseum museum, opened in January 2010, Capital of Culture year, in the former coal washing plant of the Zeche Zollverein mine, World Heritage Site, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Red illuminated main staircase in the new Ruhrmuseum museum, opened in January 2010, Capital of Culture year, in the former coal washing plant of the Zeche Zollverein mine, World Heritage Site, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Illuminated staircase in the former coal washing plant, new Ruhr Museum, UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Ruhrgebiet region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

On the stairs of former coal washing plant in the colliery Zeche Zollverein, now Ruhr Museum, UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

On the stairs of former coal washing plant in the colliery Zeche Zollverein, now Ruhr Museum, UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Illuminated staircase in the former coal washing plant, new Ruhr Museum, UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Ruhrgebiet region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Ryoan-ji's tsukuba, a small basin provided at Japanese Buddhist temples for visitors to purify themselves by the ritual washing of hands and rinsing of the mouth. Kyoto, Japan, Japan

Fresco, Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, 1158, North of Vladimir; Russia

A boy preparing to wash his face in a canvas basin at a tented camp in the Okavango Delta, Okavango Delta, Botswana

A boy washing his face in a basin at a campsite in the Okavango, Okavango Delta, Botswana

A boy washing his face in a basin at a campsite in the Okavango, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Woman washing her face