There are four key issues to consider when thinking about global water issues:
Water scarcity: In some parts of the world a changing climate is drying up traditional water sources and leading to erratic weather, leaving 1.1 billion people without access to safe water. This causes conflict over scarce resources, puts strain on the women of [...]
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Welcome! The Pulitzer Gateway on Water Wars is a place where students and teachers can interact directly with Pulitzer Center reporters — and with each other — to learn about and discuss the importance of water around the world. The public is also invited to explore the reporting, post their own story about water, and [...]
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World Toilet Day is no joke
Peter Sawyer and Maura Youngman, for the Pulitzer Center
On November 19th, World Toilet Day 2009, sanitation advocates at the U.S. Capitol made the point that going number two in the absence of sanitation is nothing to giggle about — and that access to clean water is nothing to take for [...]
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Nearly 1 billion people around the world lack access to clean water and sanitation. On a special edition of Foreign Exchange, Jon Sawyer, Executive Director of the Pulitzer Center, highlights some of the sustained Pulitzer Center water coverage, from the massive desertification of north central China to river pollution in India, from the repercussions of [...]
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Desertification is one of the most important environmental challenges facing the world today, however it is arguably the most under-reported. Desertification is the gradual transformation of arable and habitable land into desert, usually caused by climate change and/or the improper use of land. Each year, desertification and drought account for US$42 billion loss in food [...]
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Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp was for years among the world’s most famous, home to the “Lost Boys” of southern Sudan and as many as 90,000 refugees and displaced persons. Today those still here are fighting for their lives, caught between “donor fatigue” and a struggle over limited resources with their Turkana neighbors that is increasingly [...]
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The majority of India’s water sources are polluted. A lack of access to safe water contributes to a fifth of its communicable diseases. Each day in the booming, nuclear-armed nation, diarrhea alone kills more than 1,600 people.
The regional scenario is even more grim given the projected impact of population pressures and global warming—which aggravates the [...]
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At the conclusion of the World Water Forum Jon Sawyer, the Pulitzer Center’s executive director, traveled to Ethiopia to report on the challenges of, and potential solutions to, the water crisis in East Africa.
See Alex Stonehill and Ernest Waititu’s reports from India here.
“Ethiopia: The Garden of Urine,” by Jon Sawyer
In the arid hills above Addis [...]
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At the conclusion of the World Water Forum Alex Stonehill and Ernest Waititu, who worked on the Pulitzer Center’s East Africa Water Wars reporting project, traveled to India to cover the growing sanitation problems the country is facing. Their reports are collected below.
“India kills her goddess,” by Ernest Waititu
NEW DELHI, India – Some hundreds of [...]
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Pulitzer Center reports from the World Water Forum, and beyond
The World Water Forum, the world’s largest water policy event, held its fifth session last month in Istanbul. Organizers boasted 33,058 participants from 192 countries, from government officials to experts and advocates, plus over a thousand accredited journalists.
Among them was Jon Sawyer, executive director of the [...]
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While Americans fret over rising gas prices and global tension over oil, the world’s poor are struggling to secure access to another, even more basic resource. Water scarcity in East Africa is fueling conflict and thwarting development while growing in step with local populations and rising global temperatures.
Though the actions of industrialized nations are primarily [...]
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The Water Wars portal (designed by Dan McCarey) is highlighted in a special edition of Foreign Exchange devoted entirely to global water issues. Daljit Dhaliwal interviews Pulitzer Center journalist Alex Stonehill and draws on the portal to share video reports and student perspectives.
Rose George, author of The Big Necessity also joins the program to discuss [...]
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Investigative journalist Rose George recently appeared on the public-television program Foreign Exchange, discussing her new book on sanitation The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
From Monday November 3rd through Friday November 7th, she participated in a Q&A exchange (see below). Rose also joined us for a live chat on [...]
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