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February 15, 2016 | Global Health NOW
India's Need for School Toilets
Open defecation has huge public health and economic consequences in India. How can toilets in schools help solve this problem?
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Water and Sanitation
February 12, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
China: Pictures of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.”
January 25, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
China’s Mega Hydro-Projects are Coupled with Devastating Impacts
During the course of the year that I filmed him, fisherman Cao Suizhou’s hair turned from jet black to white, a potent sign of stress for a man who otherwise endures his worries in silence.
January 20, 2016 | PRI's The World
Looking Small for Big Answers in Greenland
Scientists in Greenland are using cutting edge technology to track tiny changes to predict what a warmer future might hold for the island's giant ice pack and the rest of the world.
January 20, 2016 | PRI's The World
In Greenland, a Climate Change Mystery with Clues Written in Water and Stone
A few of Greenland's biggest glaciers began melting a decade ago. And scientists are trying to puzzle out a mystery story with big consequences for the future of the island's fast-melting ice sheet.
January 05, 2016 | Foreign Policy
Who Will China’s Huge Water Transfer Project Leave Behind?
What China's huge water transfer project means for those at both ends of the pipeline.
December 22, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Traveling the Length of the Blue Nile: A Six-Week Expedition for National Geographic
Peter Schwartzstein, Leyland Cecco, and Jonathan Rashad traveled from Ethiopia's Lake Tana, the White Nile in Sudan, to the Nile Delta in Egypt where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
December 14, 2015 | USA Today
The Costs of Peru's Farming Boom
In Peru, thriving agribusiness, declining aquifers and conflicts over water.
December 13, 2015 | Quartz
Sudan: A 21st-Century Gold Rush Where People Work in 19th-Century Conditions
Having lost its oil, Sudan is pinning its economic hopes on gold. But the slave-like conditions in which the miners work, and continuing US sanctions will likely keep Western investors away for now.
December 10, 2015 | USA Today
Dry Springs and Dead Orchards
Barren fields in Morocco reveal risks of severe depletion in North Africa.
December 10, 2015 | USA Today
How Unchecked Pumping is Sucking Aquifers Dry in India
In India, some areas are rapidly running out of groundwater.
December 10, 2015 | USA Today
California in Overdraft
Dry wells and sinking ground as state struggles with groundwater crisis.
May 02, 2009 | Project news
Jennifer Redfearn featured in New York Times article on Carteret Islands
Pulitzer-funded documentary filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn was quoted and her photography was featured in today's New York Times piece on the Carteret Islands. Redfearn's documentary, "Sun Come Up", follows the relocation of some of the world's first climate change refugees – the Carteret Islanders, a matrilineal community living on an island chain, 50 miles off the
April 27, 2009 | News Points
Ethiopia: Water wars, or peace?
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
April 17, 2009 | News Points
Ethiopia: The Garden of Urine
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
March 27, 2009 | News Points
For women, girls and water, it's donkey's work
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Two weeks of briefings and field interviews on water and sanitation, first in Istanbul at the World Water Forum and then in Ethiopia, leave three indelible impressions.
March 24, 2009 | News Points
On water, individuals making a difference
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Population Services International (PSI), the non-profit long known for its international distribution of condoms, is all about prevention – which is why PSI is now a big player on clean water, too.
March 23, 2009 | News Points
Front-line perspectives: Journalists on water
For Pakistani television journalist Shehryar Mufti it's the underreported role of water resources in his country's long-running conflict with India over Kashmir.
March 22, 2009 | News Points
Talking Water: Voices from Istanbul
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
This dispatch was featured on the St. Louis Beacon's online publication on 3-23-09 as an Editor's Pick.
ISTANBUL, Turkey – An international gathering devoted to water's dominant role in global disease and health was rich in rhetoric and sparse on anything in the way of tangible policy breakthroughs.
March 02, 2009 | Project news
Screening of Jennifer Redfearn's "Sun Come Up" 4/26, The American Museum of Natural History.
The American Museum of Natural History will screen Jennifer Redfearn's short work-in-progress video of "Sun Come Up," a documentary that follows the relocation of a community of climate change refugees living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean. More info about the event
January 02, 2009 | Education news
Pulitzer Center at Youth Forum for High School Students
Update: Voices of America (VOA) has coverage of this event here and a video from the Water Wars project by Ernest Waititu.
October 14, 2008 | Project news
Is Water A Human Right?
How does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights fit in when it comes to water issues?
August 06, 2008 | Awards
Pulitzer Center Projects Receive Knight-Batten Honors
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting projects received an Honorable Mention and two Notable Entries in the annual Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism spotlight news and information providers who offer more than multimedia journalism. The awards honor novel efforts that seize and create opportunities to involve citizens in public issues and supply entry points that invite their participation or spark their imagination.
July 10, 2008 | Project news
Common Language Team presents at Americans for Informed Democracy's Global Scholar Program
On July 10th, The Common Language team presented their reporting on the growing water crisis in Ethiopia and Kenya to Americans for Informed Democracy's Global Scholar Program. The course seeks to give students a historical overview of international affairs and a background on the most important international institutions. It takes an in-depth look at globalization and the U.S. role in our increasingly globalized world.