Journalist’s Trade

‘I try to focus my coverage on people whose lives intersect with water.’

It’s the economy, stupid.

By bringing awareness and information to reporters, stories about these topics are starting to be told.

‘Tracking the battles over water isn’t a beat—it’s a career.’

“When the tsunami hit Thailand’s coastal line … nobody in this country would have thought that Mother Nature could inflict such casualties to the land of smile.” With those words,…

In India, ‘reportage on this complex subject has regressed to its earlier character—unsophisticated and immature.’

A photographer chronicles the slow death of the Colorado River Delta.

Three years after the Elbe River flood, ‘it is even harder to get these topics back into the news.’

‘Unless there is a real and apparent danger … reporters will find it hard to convince editors to dedicate time and space for water stories.’

A journalist describes approaches to and experiences with coverage of Egypt’s water issues.