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A shipping container transformed into separate toilets

Three years after CCIJ investigation, Namibia makes sanitation improvements, but crisis still remains

Jun. 3, 2026
Freddie Clayton and Sonja Smith
Namibia
A settlement camp of small metal shacks spread out on a hill

Namibian government takes steps to address dire sanitation conditions exposed in CCIJ investigation

Dec. 13, 2023
Freddie Clayton and Sonja Smith
Namibia
2022 - Downriver from the Hite Crossing Bridge in Lake Powell, Utah, the once-inundated Colorado River has again become a river after over two decades of drought. However, with the increasing threats of climate change, megadrought and over-allocation of the river, how long Lake Powell, an artificial reservoir for the river, will be able to service the needs of those who depend on it remains an open – and looming – question.

What the world can learn from Africa’s ‘cradle of water reclamation’

Aug. 23, 2023
Freddie Clayton
Namibia
H2OFail
Construction trucks lining up at the East gate of the Nyerere reserve

Uncovering Threats to Wildlife and Mangrove Forests from the Rufiji Dam Project in Tanzania

Jun. 6, 2023
Alexandre Brutelle and Christina Orieschnig
Namibia
Democratic Resettlement Community outside of Swakopmund, Namibia

Namibian government vows to scale up sanitation efforts after CCIJ investigation reveals a country in crisis

May. 10, 2023
Freddie Clayton and Sonja Smith
Namibia
A dead oryx with legs tangled in barbed wire fence

‘Not the kind of life a human being should live’: How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future – Part Three

May. 3, 2023
Sonja Smith and Freddie Clayton
Namibia
H2OFail
A young boy plays on a newly built septic tank

‘Not the kind of life a human being should live’: How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future – Part Two

May. 2, 2023
Freddie Clayton and Sonja Smith
Namibia
H2OFail
An unsheltered white ceramic toilet in a dirt field with dry brush.

‘Not the kind of life a human being should live’: How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future – Part One

May. 1, 2023
Sonja Smith and Freddie Clayton
Namibia
H2OFail
Two boys collecting water from the bottom of a ditch of dirt

‘Not the kind of life a human being should live’: How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future

May. 1, 2023
Freddie Clayton and Sonja Smith
Namibia
H2OFail

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