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Waiting for Water: West African Journalists' Investigations Play
A collection of reports on water and sanitation produced by four West African journalists and two international journalists as part of Pulitzer Center's ground-breaking collaborative reporting project.
West Africa has some of the lowest rates of access to safe drinking water in the world. Governments, private contractors, UN agencies and international non-government organizations (NGOs) have spent billions of dollars to address the problem. But success is elusive, and the challenge is only becoming more severe. Populations are growing, people are moving from farms to cities, and city planning is chaotic. The reasons cited for failure are varied and numerous, from inadequate funds and mismanagement to corruption, lack of spare parts, no local buy-in, and weak institutions. At the same time, everyone claims to have the latest and most promising solution to the challenge.
Missing from the flood tide of PR and spin are local, objective voices with international reach that can distinguish high-level rhetoric from baseless posturing and good intentions from good results. The Pulitzer Center is partnering with journalists from four countries in West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Liberia. American journalists, Stephen Sapienza and Peter Sawyer, traveled to the region to report alongside them.
West Africa has some of the lowest rates of access to safe drinking water in the world. Governments, private contractors, UN agencies and international non-government organizations (NGOs) have spent billions of dollars to address the problem. But success is elusive, and the challenge is only becoming more severe. Populations are growing, people are moving from farms to cities, and city planning is chaotic. The reasons cited for failure are varied and numerous, from inadequate funds and mismanagement to corruption, lack of spare parts, no local buy-in, and weak institutions. At the same time, everyone claims to have the latest and most promising solution to the challenge.
Missing from the flood tide of PR and spin are local, objective voices with international reach that can distinguish high-level rhetoric from baseless posturing and good intentions from good results. The Pulitzer Center is partnering with journalists from four countries in West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Liberia. American journalists, Stephen Sapienza and Peter Sawyer, traveled to the region to report alongside them.
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What Causes Water Shortages in Nigeria and Ghana?
- by Pulitzer Center
- 3,124 views
- 2 years ago
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Water and Peace in Ivory Coast: Reconciliation After Civil War
- by Pulitzer Center
- 1,370 views
- 2 years ago
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Liberia's Ongoing Water Crisis: Does Rhetoric Match Reality?
- by Pulitzer Center
- 832 views
- 2 years ago
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Ameto Akpe on Opaque Financial Management of Water in Nigeria
- by Pulitzer Center
- 254 views
- 2 years ago
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Selay Kouassi on Water as a Tool for Peace in Ivory Coast
- by Pulitzer Center
- 154 views
- 2 years ago
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Tecee Boley on the Lack of Water in Monrovia, Liberia Slums
- by Pulitzer Center
- 435 views
- 2 years ago
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Samuel Agyemang on Bottlenecks in Ghanaian Water Supply
- by Pulitzer Center
- 222 views
- 2 years ago
Global Goods, Local Costs: Real Prices of Modern Commodities Play
A collection of videos that uncover the true costs of producing the commodities that have become essential to our lifestyles but that mostly we take for granted.
Behind almost every product we buy and the GDP numbers we worry over, there is a story whose trail crosses the globe. Every physical product starts as raw material somewhere, from the gold in our jewelry to the shrimp at our favorite restaurant and the minerals within our mobile phones and laptops.
The rapid industrialization of countries like India, China and Brazil and a voracious consumer culture in Europe, the United States and Japan mean ever greater demand for these raw materials--and ever greater pressures on the individuals, communities and environments that bear the cost of providing them.
These local costs too often remain hidden. They are obscured by companies and governments that put a premium on production and exports. They are little understood by consumers, whose concept of "price" and "value" doesn't include damage done to people and places far away.
The Global Goods, Local Costs Gateway is an effort to make those connections plain, to show the true costs of producing the commodities that have become essential to our lifestyles but that mostly we take for granted. These reports touch on goods and challenges across the globe that share a common theme: the implications of a vision of endless prosperity set against the reality of a finite planet.
Behind almost every product we buy and the GDP numbers we worry over, there is a story whose trail crosses the globe. Every physical product starts as raw material somewhere, from the gold in our jewelry to the shrimp at our favorite restaurant and the minerals within our mobile phones and laptops.
The rapid industrialization of countries like India, China and Brazil and a voracious consumer culture in Europe, the United States and Japan mean ever greater demand for these raw materials--and ever greater pressures on the individuals, communities and environments that bear the cost of providing them.
These local costs too often remain hidden. They are obscured by companies and governments that put a premium on production and exports. They are little understood by consumers, whose concept of "price" and "value" doesn't include damage done to people and places far away.
The Global Goods, Local Costs Gateway is an effort to make those connections plain, to show the true costs of producing the commodities that have become essential to our lifestyles but that mostly we take for granted. These reports touch on goods and challenges across the globe that share a common theme: the implications of a vision of endless prosperity set against the reality of a finite planet.
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Global Goods, Local Costs
- by Pulitzer Center
- 1,254 views
- 2 years ago
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The New Conquistadors: Canadian Mining Companies Battle for Panama's Natural Resources
- by Pulitzer Center
- 1,747 views
- 2 years ago
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Mining for Gold in Haiti: Haiti Helped or Exploited by U.S., Canadian Mining Companies?
- by Pulitzer Center
- 5,016 views
- 2 years ago
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Charcoal: The Culprit of Cambodia's Deforestation
- by Pulitzer Center
- 1,108 views
- 2 years ago
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Penan of Borneo Fight Malaysian Logging Giants
- by Pulitzer Center
- 1,668 views
- 3 years ago
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Home of Batek Negrito Nomads Turned into Palm Oil
- by Pulitzer Center
- 2,092 views
- 3 years ago
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Memories of Red: Gold Mining in Romania's Rosia Montana
- by Pulitzer Center
- 2,466 views
- 2 years ago
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Memories of Red: Hungary Sludge Disaster
- by Pulitzer Center
- 693 views
- 2 years ago
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Peru Inaugurates President Ollanta Humala
- by Pulitzer Center
- 618 views
- 3 years ago
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Fish vs. Oil: Ghana's Fishermen Losing Fish to Oil Field (Part 1)
- by Pulitzer Center
- 1,336 views
- 3 years ago
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Fish vs. Oil: Ghana's Fishermen Losing Fish to Oil Field (Part 2)
- by Pulitzer Center
- 876 views
- 3 years ago
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Fish vs Oil: Ghana Oil Industry Yet to Create Jobs
- by Pulitzer Center
- 776 views
- 3 years ago
Population: Problems with 7 Billion People Play
Population is a collection of reports by Pulitzer Center's journalists on the global issue that lies at the intersection of economics, environment, gender roles, culture, politics, and religion.
The population issue is fraught with moral positions, confusion, and unexpected connections. We cannot talk about population growth without also discussing decline; or immigration, without climate and business; or contraception, without faith and medical technology. It is the mother of cross-cutting issues -- at the intersection of economics, environment, gender roles, culture, politics, and religion. The population question is about the possibility and necessity of balancing the needs of nature and human civilization -- and whether we can hope to or should have any say over the process.
The issue is global. Overpopulation of one region will seek release in an under-populated region. Stronger economies will be a magnet for those from weaker economies. Local carbon emissions will increase temperatures and change global weather patterns, disrupting food supplies and sowing insecurity. Diseases that begin in crowded slums can travel the world. Aging populations could lead to long-term economic depression, decreasing our ability to address the great problems we face such as environmental degradation.
For a question so big, it's awfully difficult to talk about. After all, at the root of the population issue is sex, our most taboo subject. Through the Population Gateway, the Pulitzer Center aims to bring nuance to the conversation in a series of multimedia reports from across the globe. Join us as we explore this critically important, but under-told story.
The population issue is fraught with moral positions, confusion, and unexpected connections. We cannot talk about population growth without also discussing decline; or immigration, without climate and business; or contraception, without faith and medical technology. It is the mother of cross-cutting issues -- at the intersection of economics, environment, gender roles, culture, politics, and religion. The population question is about the possibility and necessity of balancing the needs of nature and human civilization -- and whether we can hope to or should have any say over the process.
The issue is global. Overpopulation of one region will seek release in an under-populated region. Stronger economies will be a magnet for those from weaker economies. Local carbon emissions will increase temperatures and change global weather patterns, disrupting food supplies and sowing insecurity. Diseases that begin in crowded slums can travel the world. Aging populations could lead to long-term economic depression, decreasing our ability to address the great problems we face such as environmental degradation.
For a question so big, it's awfully difficult to talk about. After all, at the root of the population issue is sex, our most taboo subject. Through the Population Gateway, the Pulitzer Center aims to bring nuance to the conversation in a series of multimedia reports from across the globe. Join us as we explore this critically important, but under-told story.
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World Population: Fred de Sam Lazaro Explains Global Population Issues
- by Pulitzer Center
- 10,626 views
- 3 years ago
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Ethiopian Adoption Boom Shadowed by Allegations of Fraud
- by Pulitzer Center
- 2,884 views
- 2 years ago
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China's Bachelors: The Gender Imbalance
- by Pulitzer Center
- 15,713 views
- 2 years ago
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Half the World: Perspectives on the Power of Women
- by Pulitzer Center
- 4,497 views
- 2 years ago
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Meet Fred de Sam Lazaro: Brazil's Declining Birth Rate
- by Pulitzer Center
- 2,210 views
- 2 years ago
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Egypt: The Revolution Continues
- by Pulitzer Center
- 115 views
- 2 years ago
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Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides
- by Pulitzer Center
- 808,023 views
- 3 years ago
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Pulitzer Center at DC Environmental Film Festival (Part 2 of 5)
- by Pulitzer Center
- 222 views
- 3 years ago
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Pulitzer Center at the DC Environmental Film Festival (Part 4 of 5)
- by Pulitzer Center
- 303 views
- 3 years ago
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Bangladeshi NGO Teaches Importance of Sanitation
- by Pulitzer Center
- 915 views
- 3 years ago
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Bangladesh: Swimming Lessons Reduce Drowning Deaths
- by Pulitzer Center
- 1,487 views
- 3 years ago
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India's Health Care Crisis
- by Pulitzer Center
- 281 views
- 2 months ago
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Meet the Journalist: Misha Friedman
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- 3 weeks ago
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Talks @ Pulitzer: Mellissa Fung on Education in Afghanistan
- 65 views
- 1 month ago
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Meet the Journalist: Chris Berdik
- 119 views
- 1 month ago
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Untold Minute: Fish or Electricity?
- 88 views
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Meet the Journalists Behind The Nanny's Son
- 98 views
- 1 month ago
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Meet The Journalist: Jenna Krajeski
- 68 views
- 1 month ago
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Talks @ Pulitzer: Ameto Akpe and Allison Shelley on Women's Health in Nigeria
- 97 views
- 1 month ago
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Talks @ Pulitzer: Reporting Famine and Other Crises
- 130 views
- 2 months ago
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Talks @ Pulitzer: Conversation on Climate Change
- 2 months ago
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India's Health Care Crisis
- 281 views
- 2 months ago
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Meet the Journalist Dimiter Kenarov and Boryana Katsarova: Crimea Under Siege
- 150 views
- 2 months ago
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Scenes From Crimea by Boryana Katsarova
- 293 views
- 2 months ago