Schoolchildren look at a drone camera during the inauguration ceremony of a water filtration tower at their school in Nai Basti Village, some 55 kilometers (35 miles) from in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. In Nai Bastti access to clean drinking water was a dream for the villagers till Wednesday, when the water filtration plant began functioning in an elementary school in the village. India has the world's highest number of people without access to clean water. UNICEF says nearly 78 million Indians - about 5 percent of the country's 1.3 billion population - must make do with contaminated water sources or buy water at high rates. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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