In Ethiopia and Kenya, dry seasons grow longer and tribal conflict over access to water is on the rise, exacerbated by the proliferation of arms from Somalia. With clean water access scarce, the burden of securing a daily water supply has become a daunting task.
In Focus: Water Wars
Published May 21, 2008
World Water Day on March 22 reminds us of the 1 billion people on Earth who lack easy access to the water most of us take for granted. Global climate change is making that struggle worse, as we see in this report from the rugged region of southern Ethiopia, where drought is drying up wells, threatening an ancient way of life and fueling conflict.
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Credits:
Special thanks to Salihu Sultan and the Ethiopian Red Cross
Produced by the Common Language Project
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Inspired by Pulitzer Center reporting on water, students from Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis, Missouri take action to publicize global water issues, and offer their own solutions to the crisis...
Through this webquest, students will use several different projects on the "Downstream" Global Gateway to examine the impact of water around the world.
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Alex Stonehill is a print, photo and video journalist with Seattle-based www.clpmag.org, an award-winning nonprofit multimedia publishing house whose mission is to engage, educate and inform...
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Julia Marino is a master's student in photography with a concentration in interactive multimedia at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University.
She received her bachelor's with honors in...
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Ernest Waititu, a native of Kenya, is founder and editor of Afrikanews.org. Waititu has worked as a journalist for the last ten years.
He interned with the CNN International Desk in Atlanta and has...
