Protests over George Floyd's killing included one in Miami May 31, 2020, (Hanna Tverdokhib/Dreamstime.com) By Lynne Perri Share this story Over the course of 2020, the Investigative Reporting Workshop produced 20 investigations into subject areas we’ve focused on since we began publishing 11 years ago: Banking, immigration, health and the environment. Nearly 1 million people in small, disadvantaged California communities are divided from their neighbors by a lack of access to safe and affordable drinking water. (Lance M. Yamamoto) Water Our environmental coverage grew and included two major projects on water use, one in California, where an unincorporated town has endured 12 years of having to use bottled water, and another in Florida, where the state’s largest freshwater lake continues to have high phosphorus levels, creating a growing algae problem.