Fredrick Mugira is a celebrated water, wildlife, and climate change journalist. He is a recipient of globally prestigious Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications. He is also a National Geographic Explorer and a Pulitzer Center Grantee. He founded Water Journalists Africa, a media development organization with a membership spanning 50 African countries, dedicated to reporting on water, climate change, and wildlife. Water Journalists Africa runs , InfoNile, a geojournalism initiative, Nilewell, a platform facilitating collaboration among environmental researchers, scientists, and journalists, and the Apes Reporting Project, that champions the conservation of Africa’s Great Apes.
The Blue Community Initiative is a vital effort to recognize water as a fundamental human right instead of a commodity. After covering water issues for over 20 years, I firmly believe everyone deserves clean water access. By joining the Blue Community, we commit to protecting water as a shared resource and fostering conversations and collaboration to enhance water management practices.
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Lakes of Plastics
With a singular focus on plastic pollution and its effect on water bodies, this project investigates the origin, impact, and solutions to plastic pollution in specific areas of the Western Rift Valley lakes in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo that drain into the Nile River. It also pays attention to the relationship between money, business, and water pollution.
