Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor (2013-2021)

UPGro was a 7-year research programme funded by the United Kingdom that aimed to improve the evidence and understanding of groundwater across Sub-Saharan Africa to help tackle poverty.

This project website is maintained by Skat Foundation on behalf of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) as an archive.

• About UPGro
  • Background
  • Credits & Copyright
  • Resources
  • UPGro Posters – downloadable
• Africa Groundwater Atlas
• Atlas, Data, Publications and Papers
  • Data from UPGro research
  • Magazine & News Articles
  • Peer Reviewed Journal Papers from UPGro
  • Peer Reviewed Papers – related work by UPGro researchers not directly funded by UPGro
  • Presentations and peer-reviewed conference abstracts, papers and posters
  • Project Reports & Briefings
  • UPGro-based Theses
• Contacts
• Country profiles
  • Burkina Faso
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Malawi
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
• News and Blog
• Online Press Room
• Thematic Briefings
• UPGro Catalyst Projects
  • AMGRAF: Adaptive management of groundwater in Africa
  • ARIGA: Assessing Risk of Investment in Groundwater Resources
  • BRAVE: Building understanding of climate variability into the planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa
  • GroFutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Groundwater recharge in Africa: identifying critical thresholds
  • Groundwater risks and institutional response in rural Africa
  • Hidden crisis: Strengthening the evidence base on the sustainability of rural groundwater services
  • Improving access to safe drinking water prospection for low-fluoride sources of groundwater
  • INGROUND: Evaluating an inexpensive biosensor to detect anthropogenic pollution in groundwater
  • Mapping groundwater quality degradation beneath growing rural towns in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Optimising Road Development for Groundwater Recharge and Retention
  • Resource limitations to sustainability of groundwater well-points in basement complex regions of sub-Saharan Africa
  • Sustaining groundwater safety in peri-urban areas
  • Towards groundwater security in Coastal East Africa
  • Use of remote sensing and terrain modelling to map manual drilling potential in Senegal and Guinea
• UPGro Consortium Projects
  • BRAVE: Building understanding of climate variability into planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa
  • Gro for GooD: Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development
  • Grofutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Hidden Crisis: unravelling current failures for future success in rural groundwater supply
  • T-GroUP: Experimenting with practical transition groundwater management strategies for the urban poor in Sub Saharan Africa
• UPGro Log Frame
• Why groundwater? 10 reasons

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