Stockholm: A Diary from World Water Week
Tecee BoleyThousands have gathered at this year's World Water Week in Stockholm to discuss improving water and sanitation services in some of the world's fastest growing cities.In this diary from the...
View ArticleWest African Reporters Key to New Water Reporting Project
Peter Sawyer, for the Pulitzer CenterIssues surrounding water and sanitation have been a major priority at the Pulitzer Center, with nearly 20 reporting projects from around the world. This fall sees a...
View ArticleContaminated Water Taking Lives in Liberia's Slums
Tecee Boley, Monrovia, Liberia Liberian journalist Tecee Boley reports from Monrovia's biggest slum, West Point, about the lack of access to clean water. Most slum residents meet their water needs by...
View ArticleRhetoric and Reality on Water
Tecee Boley“What brought me to West Point is food. I was so hungry," says Kulah Borbor, recalling why and how she left her hometown in Grand Cape Mount County in western Liberia. Borbor fled heavy...
View ArticleAccountability Journalism: Reports on Water from West Africa
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...
View ArticlePeter Sawyer Speaks at Davidson College Media Conference
Pulitzer Center Special Projects Coordinator Peter Sawyer is returning to Davidson College, his alma mater, for this year's Davidson Media Conference, Global Exchange and Local Change. He will share...
View ArticleWhy Clean, Safe Water Is Still Out of Reach for Liberia
Tecee Boley, Stephen Sapienza, Peter SawyerLiberia is still recovering from decades of civil conflict that claimed 200,000 lives and disrupted basic services, not least access to clean water and...
View ArticleIn Liberia, Political Battles Center on Water Access
Tecee Boley"Water! Water!" Eugene Seoh shouted from his three-story apartment building on Benson Street, a main avenue in the center of Liberia's capital, Monrovia.From across the road, water vendor...
View ArticleLiberia’s Education Crisis: Sanitation Issues Drive Children from Classrooms
Tecee Boley“Ah…o say….! Ah oh…say! We will make sure water and sanitation issues are addressed on this campus!” yells Sarta S. Bawoh in her election battle cry as her followers answer “Say!”Sarta, 18,...
View ArticleThe Link Between Sanitation and Malnutrition
Amelia Warshaw“Many of the 162 million other children under the age of 5 in the world who are malnourished are suffering less [from] a lack of food than [from] poor sanitation,” reports Gardiner...
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