By Frederick Clayton

Photography by John Trotter and Margaret Courtney-Clarke

August 23, 2023

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Veza is a digital publication produced by the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ). We are committed to a model of journalism that holds investigative reporting, data science, and visual journalism as equal partners in producing reporting that focuses on vulnerable communities.

Nigeria

Namibia

By Frederick Clayton and Sonja Smith
Photography by Margaret Courtney-Clarke

May 1, 2023

In Response

Namibia

Gender-based violence series

Ethiopia

Investigative Series

Rivers of Sewage

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​

VEZA

Visual, data-driven investigative journalism.

About Veza

Veza is a digital publication produced by the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ).

We are committed to a model of journalism that holds investigative reporting, data science, and visual journalism as equal partners in producing reporting that focuses on vulnerable communities.

Investigative Series

More than half of South Africa’s sewage treatment works are failing

H2OFail

Close to 1 billion people do not have access to clean water. H2OFail is an ongoing investigation into the causes and consequences of that global failure.

Tapped Out is a collection of stories around power, justice and water in the American West.

An international investigation into the global lottery industry involving close to 40 people from 10 countries working in journalism and civic tech organizations in Africa, Europe and the United States.