Water: A Life Force Harnessed as News

This topic is featured in the Nieman Reports Spring 2005 issue, a quarterly magazine about journalism published by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. The stories in this issue were written by international journalists who examine water issues. The issues range from the consequences of drought conditions to questions about dam construction; from polluted public water systems to the threat coastal growth poses to the Gulf of Mexico; from the privatisation of public water supplies to attempts to deal with local sanitation issues; and from the politics of water usage to the devastation left by the Indian Ocean tsunami.