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On Assignment, an online and in-print publication, is produced at the end of each Media21 workshop and fieldtrip(s) with selected reports produced by the participating journalists for their own media.
Media21, which does not assume editorial responsibility, publishes these articles to demonstrate the quality and extent of the coverage engendered by each workshop.
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by Lilia Gurez, R. Profit magazine, R. Moldova
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By Teresa REHMAN, Tehelka online
Tuberculosis is rife among Assam’s Adivasi tea estate workers, but everyone is blaming the workers themselves.
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By Teresa Rehman, Tehelka online
A hilarious cartoon put up in a village square of a family found
defecating in the complete with the names and addresses of the
offenders. Well, this scenario is the reality for people in Tripura’s
S.N. Colony Gram Panchayat.
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“I think we really need to break the glass ceiling here, and we need more women at the decision-making level.”
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By Kevin FERGUSON, The New-York Times online
May 8, 2009 -- For eight years, Procter & Gamble has tried
everything to market its PUR disinfectant powder — a quick way to make
filthy water usable and a potential boon for poor nations where
unsanitary water causes thousands of deaths each year.
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By Matt WEISER, The Sacramento Bee online
May. 06, 2009 --Dozens of property owners in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta are challenging a state demand to access land for studies related
to a controversial water canal.
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By Matt WEISER, The Sacramento Bee online
May. 6, 2009 - It's a classic urban outrage:
In a rare spring rain, your neighbor's lawn sprinklers are flooding the gutter and sidewalk, wasting a precious resource.
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By Shabina RARRAQ, Sunday magazine Daily Jang (in Urdu)
22nd March 2009 on Water day -- This article discussed impact of water
shortage on Pakistan 's economy and also impact on agriculture sector.
Both countries should respect Indus Water Treaty which was signed in
1960
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by Kennedy JAWOKO CBC Radio Toronto (radio documentary)
The Yamuna River in northern India is much more than a river. In the
Hindu religion, it is a she and she is a goddess. Every year, Hindu
pilgrims take a holy dip into Goddess Yamuna to cleanse themselves of a
lifetime of sin but when The Current's contributor Kennedy Jawoko went
for a look, as part of our on-going series Watershed, he found that the goddess could use some cleaning up. Here's Kennedy Jawoko's documentary The Death of a Goddess.
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By Matt WEISER, The Sacramento Bee online
Apr. 30, 2009 - The water content of the state's snowpack actually
shrank in the final month of winter, from 80 percent of normal on April
1 to 66 percent of normal recorded Thursday in the state's final snow
survey of the season.
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By Tasha EICHENSEHER, Blogs.nationalgeographic.com
Istanbul, March 17, 2009 -- More than 20,000 people from at least 175
countries are buzzing around Istanbul this week talking about water.
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By Tasha EICHENSEHER for National Geographic News
Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2009 -- If a public toilet is good enough
for Miss Kenya, it should be good enough for the less glamorous
citizens of her nation.
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By Tasha EICHENSEHER, Blogs.nationalgeographic.com
Istanbul, Turkey, March 20, 2009 -- Finding water is usually the work
of women and girls, according to Joke Muylwijk, executive director of
the Gender Water Alliance, a network of more than a thousand people
around the globe dedicated to equitable access to water resources and
decision-making.
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(in Spanish) By Carlos Alberto RAMOS, Prensa Verde (Honduras)
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Text and Video by Alex STONEHILL with reporting by Ernest WAITITU for the Pulitzer Center
Like many world cities, Delhi was born on the banks of a river. The
Yamuna, a tributary of the Ganges, originates in the pristine foothills
of the Himalayas, and flows south through farmlands until it feeds into
the Indian capitol city.
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Media21/ICP - 06.04.2009 - Chris La MARCA, independant photographer, participated to the Media21 fieldtrip to Ethiopia on water and sanitation after the World Water Forun in Istanbul, in March 2009. He shares some of his impressions. Chris LaMarca was awarded a grant by the International Center of Photography (ICP) .
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By Shabina RAZZAQ, Sunday magazine Daily Jang (in Urdu)
About the impact of water shortage on women, specially in coastal areas. In these areas usually women are responsible for collect water for their family and animals. They spent 4 and 5 hours for two buckets of water. women are worst affected by water shortage.
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Video interview of Nadia Abdulaziz Al-SAKKAF, editor of The Yemen Times says walking long distances for water is just one of many major water and sanitation problems in her country. She spoke at the World Water Forum in Istanbul.
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By IHLAS News Distribution System (video)
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