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June 10, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Tajikistan's Folly? The Rogun Dam
Tajikistan's president is staking the future of his impoverished country on the world's tallest dam. But downstream Uzbekistan is threatening war.
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Water and Sanitation
June 08, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Tajikistan: Water and Stability
Grantee Joshua Kucera talks about Tajikistan's pursuit of stability, which lately is taking one step forward, two steps back.
June 06, 2013 | Roads & Kingdoms
In the Middle of Somewhere
Murghab, in Tajikistan, was once a key strategic point for the Soviet Union, on the border with China and Afghanistan. But with the Russians retreating from Central Asia, who will move in?
May 16, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Shale Gas Explorations in Strzeszewo, Poland
As drilling operators search for shale gas in Poland, residents demand more information about the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing—fracking—on their communities.
May 06, 2013 | PBS NewsHour
In Poland, Energy Deep in the Earth Fuels Dissent Above Ground
Stephen Sapienza reports on shale gas fracking in Poland for PBS Newshour.
April 09, 2013 | Virginia Quarterly Review
From Poland to Pennsylvania: Unlikely Dissidents
Two States, Three Countries, Four Opponents of Fracking.
March 25, 2013 | Front Page Africa
Liberia’s Education Crisis: Sanitation Issues Drive Children from Classrooms
Student politics in Liberia usually focus on better tuition and lower fees but one student leader insists that lack of clean water and sanitation facilities is the biggest problem students face.
February 18, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Afghanistan's Looming Water Crisis
Tensions over trans-boundary water issues with Iran and Pakistan have been a major hurdle to investments in Afghanistan's water infrastructure.
February 01, 2013 | Shalereporter.com
Pennsylvania: Of Veggies, Maples, and Shale Gas
For seven generations, Sheila Russell's family has farmed the land of Pennsylvania. Now, the rush for shale gas threatens to put an end to it all.
January 23, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Water and the Fight Against Drugs in Afghanistan
Trans-boundary tensions have cast a shadow over Afghanistan’s water infrastructure - and that's bad news when the country is trying to fight its status as the world’s largest opium producer.
December 29, 2012 | Foreign Policy
Poland's Shale Gas Dream
Poland's leaders think they've found a path to energy independence, but their high hopes could prove premature.
December 03, 2012 | The Christian Science Monitor
Global Water Crisis: From Haiti to the Himalayan Glaciers
Reporter William Wheeler talks about water stress from the high Himalayas to Haiti.