11.   When you wanted a cool drink of water, you had to throw a bucket down a well to draw it up fresh.

12.   Across the region Thais, Burmese, Cambodians and Laotians enjoy the holiday by squirting each other with water guns or throwing buckets of water at each other.

13.   Mick Jagger threw buckets of water on stageside spectators to cool them off.