Bottle
Semitic nomad with water bottle on his shoulder. Beni Hassan, Egypt. Early 19th century BC.. ´So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder ... ´ (Gen.21:14).

Water-carriers
Water-carriers come to David´s Pool at Hebron to fill their goat-skin ´bottles´. An early photograph..

Cisterns
Summer and winter cisterns at Tantur.

Flask
Water flask, found at Gezer and spearhead. Early Iron Age. (Clark Collection, YMCA, Jerusalem). Cf. I Sam.26:11..

Nile
Drawing water from the Nile using buckets which are then tipped into ditches which irrigate the fields. (A photograph by R E M Bain in about 1890).

Pool
Settling pool for water going into cisterns at Tantur.

Seller
A water-seller at one of the limestone fountains, or natural wells, of Palestine. An early photograph..

Wadi
Water is a valuable necessity in the dry land of Palestine. The Wadi Qelt sustains a thin line of vegetation in an otherwise desert landscape..

Well
Joseph´s Well near Bothan. A traditional well surrounded by stones grooved by the ropes of the buckets let down to obtain water. An early photograph..

Well
Getting water from a simple well, by lowering a pot on a string..

Carrying
The hills of Samaria with women carrying water pots.
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Well
Women gather by this village well to fill their pitchers in the evening. It is still a meeting-place for the discussion of daily affairs, a civic centre, as in the time of Deborah (Judges v,11). An early photograph..

Bottle
Assyrian woman with a water bottle.

Carry
Women carrying water pots.

Carry
Women carrying water pots.

Drink
Assyrian woman giving water to a child.

Selling
Women and water salesmen at a well.

Well
Arabs at a well.

Well
Eastern well.