By Frederick Clayton
Photography by John Trotter and Margaret Courtney-Clarke
August 23, 2023
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Nigeria
Namibia
By Frederick Clayton and Sonja Smith
Photography by Margaret Courtney-Clarke
May 1, 2023
Investigative Series
Rivers of Sewage

Taking matters into their own hands
Widespread water and sanitation failures prompt citizen groups to approach the courts

‘The water is not good at all’
How Emalahleni’s contaminated water harms its most vulnerable residents
Investigative Series
Tapped Out

Where is the water going?
Small California farmers struggle as ag titans wheel water for profit

The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking
The very ground upon which Corcoran, Calif., was built has been slowly but steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily not by nature but agriculture.
Ongoing Investigative Series
H2OFail

The Gambia’s Water Paradox
How a country with plentiful water resources is failing to provide safe water to its people

“Waterpreneurs” cash in on government failure to deliver clean water to islanders
Struggle for water a daily reality for impoverished Nigerian island residents