Groundwater Correspondents Network

Seventeen correspondents from 17 different countries were selected for this first wave of correspondents. Their contributions will, among other stories, explore a unique stone mangrove system in Brazil, which holds immense social importance to a local community of descendants of slaves. And, they will explain how a groundwater project in Beni, in DR Congo, is contributing to the reduction of sexual violence against women and young girls by eliminating the need for them to wake up before sunrise and traverse dangerous areas in search of water. 

The first story to be be published comes from Turkana South, in Kenya, where people battle against an invisible enemy that had plagued generations: the struggle for safe water.

These are only three out of more than 30 stories that this first group of correspondents is planning to tell over the next two years. These stories will either be in writing or film and will be published on IGRAC’s stories section. In addition, IGRAC will publish a yearly magazine to compile all the stories that have been written that year.

• Find out more about the network here.