A surprising group of investors is fueling a global scramble for water in the most unlikely of places – the Arizona desert. As wells run dry, there’s a race for profits.

Amanda Pike
Director of TV and Documentaries, Executive Producer
Amanda Pike (she/her) is the director of the TV and documentary department and executive producer of films and series at Reveal. Under her leadership, The Center for Investigative Reporting garnered its first Academy Award nomination and four national Emmys, among other accolades. She was the executive producer of the inaugural year of the Glassbreaker Films initiative, supporting women in documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism. She has spent the past two decades reporting and producing documentaries for PBS, CBS, ABC, National Geographic, A&E, Lifetime and The Learning Channel, among others. Subjects have ranged from militia members in Utah to young entrepreneurs in Egypt and genocide perpetrators in Cambodia. Pike also has dabbled in fiction filmmaking, producing the short film “On the Assassination of the President,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
American Rehab: A Desperate Call
Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.
Episode: When Abusers Keep Their Guns
By law, domestic abusers are banned from owning guns. But too often, those laws aren’t enforced, and the consequences can be deadly.
‘No matter what we did, we just couldn’t catch up.’
An ER doctor in New York City shares his experience amid the COVID-19 pandemic: “I don’t think we’ve had time to process what’s happened to us.”
‘What everyone shares is the desire to shelter in place in a safe haven.’
As part of our comics series about inequality amid the pandemic, a realtor in the Hamptons reflects on how COVID-19 has changed the meaning of home.
‘We have always been able to say goodbye to those who have left this life.’
A funeral director in South Carolina shares what it’s like to plan socially distanced funerals.
‘We’re not treated like people. We’re numbers.’
This comic shares the experiences of someone working in Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘I have to be out there. They’re killing us.’
“Even though I don’t wanna die from COVID-19, I’d rather die fighting for a cause trying to save people’s lives.”
‘A lot of us feel we are living in a state of tyranny.’
Part of our illustrated series on inequity in the time of pandemic.
‘I was forced to drive across the country during a pandemic just to get health care.’
A Texas woman seeking an abortion asks: “Why is my life not important enough to the governor and the other men making these decisions?”