Nigerian journalist Ameto Akpe and Emmy award-winning producer Stephen Sapienza will discuss issues of inadequate access to safe drinking water in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ghana.
Bangladesh: Easy Like Water
Stephen Sapienza crafts simple but compelling narratives, chronicling the lives and plights of everyday people, from the cities of Bangladesh to the streets of Sierra Leone, writes Ameto Akpe.
The Pulitzer Center-supported documentary "Easy Like Water" receives MacArthur Documentary Film Grant Award. The film is one of eight selected out of nearly 400 proposals.
Solving Dhaka’s sanitation issue is simple. Steve Sapienza says the Bangladeshi capital needs only to provide slum residents clean water and worry less about the resources used to pay for it.
Of the 600,000-plus hand pumps installed in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years some 30 percent are known to have failed prematurely.
Join Emmy Award-winner Stephen Sapienza and Peter Sawyer from the Pulitzer Center for a film screening and discussion of the global water and sanitation crisis on Monday, November 8th, at 7:00 PM i
Water issues affect us all, from the women who spend hours daily fetching water to political battles over international rivers to melting icepack and rising sea levels. We are all downstream.
Sea level rising in Bangladesh brings unexpected challenges, increasingly forcing humans and tigers into common habitats.
Satkhira district nervously awaits the next "mega-cyclone."
As we continue production of "Easy Like Water," our film crew re-visited the solar floating schools, libraries, and adult education centers run by the Bangladeshi NGO
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Stephen Sapienza is an award-winning news and documentary producer who has covered a wide range of human security stories, including the HIV crisis in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, child...
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Glenn Baker has produced more than 40 documentaries broadcast on PBS exploring global security issues. He produced and directed “Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age” for the PBS series “...