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Wells, Zakouma National Park, Chad, 2007

Photo: Aerial view of wells holding rains

Like petals on a flower, wells fan out from a central point in Chad’s Zakouma National Park. The wells hold water from the life-giving heavy rains that start every year in May, ending months of drought in central Africa.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Zakouma: Eye to Eye," March 2007, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Michael Nichols

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