Ashley Cooper / Asia's largest solar popwer station, the Gujarat Solar Park, in Gujarat, India. It has an installed capacity of 1000 MW. Here workers wash dust off the panels to increase their efficiency. December 20...

Ashley Cooper / Asia's largest solar popwer station, the Gujarat Solar Park, in Gujarat, India. It has an installed capacity of 1000 MW. Here workers wash dust off the panels to increase their efficiency. December 20...

Ashley Cooper / Asia's largest solar power station, the Gujarat Solar Park, in Gujarat, India. It has an installed capacity of 1000 MW. Here workers wash dust off the panels to increase their efficiency. December 201...

Ashley Cooper / Workers washing the heliostats to maximise reflective power at the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant, the largest solar thermal plant in the world. It covers 4,000 acres of desert and produce 392 meg...

Ashley Cooper / Workers washing the heliostats to maximise reflective power at the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant, the largest solar thermal plant in the world. It covers 4,000 acres of desert and produce 392 meg...

Ashley Cooper / CFA fire fighters tackling a roadside fire near Shepperton, Victoria, Australia, probably started by a motorist throwing a cigarette out of the window. This image was taken during the drought which 15...

Ashley Cooper / Thirlmere reservoir during severe drought, Lake District, England, UK, July 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Thirlmere reservoir during severe drought, Lake District, England, UK, July 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Mud cracks at Thirlmere reservoir in the Lake District during severe drought, England, UK. July 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Fracking truck at site near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA. September 2014.

Tony Wu / Ama diver searching for shellfish including Sea snails (Turbo sazae) amongst seaweed. Hose supplies diver with air and enables communication with husband at surface. Futo Harbour, Izu Peninsula, Honsh...

Tony Wu / Ama diver searching for shellfish including Sea snails (Turbo sazae) amongst seaweed. Hose supplies diver with air and enables communication with husband at surface. Futo Harbour, Izu Peninsula, Honsh...

Tony Wu / Ama diver searching for shellfish including Sea snails (Turbo sazae) amongst seaweed. Hose supplies diver with air and enables communication with husband at surface. Futo Harbour, Izu Peninsula, Honsh...

Tony Wu / Ama diver adjusting her mask and breathing hose before going into the ocean to work. Futo Harbour, Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. June 2010.

Chien Lee / Hose's Frog (Rana hosii), Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Andrew Walmsley / Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus), adult crossing a field using an irrigation hose as it forages in the canopy. Cipaganti, Garut, Java, Indonesia.

Andrew Walmsley / Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus), adult crossing a field using an irrigation hose as it forages in the canopy. Cipaganti, Garut, Java, Indonesia.

Andrew Walmsley / Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus), adult crossing a field using an irrigation hose as it forages in the canopy. Cipaganti, Garut, Java, Indonesia.

Nick Upton / British Divers Marine Life Rescue animal medic Michelle Clement fitting a hose held by colleague Simon Dolphin into the throat of an injured Grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) 'Boggle' in order to giv...

Cyril Ruoso / Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) drinking from a hose, Thailand

Mark Carwardine / Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) within veterinary enclosure, being washed with a hose pipe. Captive-Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, within Way Kambas National Park, Lampung Province, southern Suma...

Merryn Thomas / Bristol Pilot Gig Club cleaning gig, March 2009.

Daniel Heuclin / Irrigation hose in Pistachio nut orchard (Pistacia vera) Alamogordo. New-Mexico, USA, August 2009

Stephen Dalton / Robin {Erithacus rubecula} on garden terrace, UK

Chien Lee / Marbled Tree Toad (Pedostibes rugosus), Hose Mountains, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / True Frog (Meristogenys whiteheadi), Hose Mountains, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Stick Insect (Phenacephorus sp) mimicking a moss-covered branch, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Marbled Tree Toad (Pedostibes rugosus) camouflaged on branch, Hose Mountains, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Marbled Tree Toad (Pedostibes rugosus) camouflaged on branch, Hose Mountains, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Marbled Tree Toad (Pedostibes rugosus), Hose Mountains, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Stick Insect (Phenacephorus sp) mimicking a moss-covered branch, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Stick Insect (Calvisia sp), Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Stick Insect (Calvisia sp), Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Asiatic Tailed Caecilian (Ichthyophiidae), Hose Mountains, Borneo, Malaysia

Pete Oxford / Giant anteater head hose profile {Myrmecophaga tridactyla} Amazon, Peru, South America

Chien Lee / Hose's Frog (Rana hosii), Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing cruising yacht "Lily Pad" at the end of the season.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing a cruising yacht at the end of the season.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing cruising yacht "Lily Pad" at the end of the season.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing a cruising yacht at the end of the season.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing cruising yacht "Lily Pad" at the end of the season.

Patricio Robles Gil / Man washing sculpture of an Elephant with a hose, Nyatapola Temple, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, Nepal, December 2007

Matthew Maran / Red fox cub (Vulpes vulpes) peers out from behind water trough on allotment, London, England.

Ch'ien Lee / Hose's Civet (Diplogale hosei), rarely photographed species, Borneo

Adrian Davies / Firemen spraying water over a Gorse (Ulex sp.) fire smouldering on cliff top caused by discarded BBQ coals in extremely hot, dry summer, Glebe Cliff, Tintagel, Cornwall, UK. August, 2022.

Adrian Davies / Fireman spraying water on a Gorse (Ulex sp.) fire burning on cliff top caused by discarded BBQ coals in extremely hot, dry summer, Glebe Cliff, Tintagel, Cornwall, UK. August, 2022.

Yves Lanceau / Domestic dog, Wire haired Fox Terrier, leaping up into water sprayed from garden hose, France

Nigel Cattlin / Young orange orchard on the Letaba Estates with hose for piped irrigation and nutrient drip, near Tzaneen, Transvaal, South Africa

Frederique Olivier / Refuelling at Casey Station is conducted with a 2000m long hose run from the ship, Antarctica January 2009

Milan Radisics / People waiting outside hose during flooding in Venice, Italy, December 2019.

Neil Aldridge / Cages used for trapping European badgers (Meles meles) for vaccination against TB are cleaned. North Somerset, UK. Badger vaccination programmes are being carried out in England as a means of controll...

Erwan Quéméré / Man cleaning the propellor of a commercial vessel, Concarneau, France.