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 Ababa a metal gate swings open to reveal a riot of color – on one side a wall of towering passion fruit trees, to the left a lush vegetable garden, and up ahead a thick carpet of lawn and flowering shrubs… Continue reading
“Ethiopia: Water wars, or peace,” by Jon Sawyer
The premise of the Pulitzer Center’s reporting project on East Africa water issues is explicit in the title itself - WaterWars, the notion that increasing population and unequal access is a near-certain recipe for conflict in the decades ahead… Continue reading
