After making a big splash last year, the UPGro presence at SIWI World Water Week 2016 has been relatively low key. However, Dr Rob Hope (Oxford) presented the exciting work from the UPGro/REACH research they is being done in Kenya.Download the presentation:
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Also presenting during the week was Dr Callist Tindimugaya, from the Ministry of Water & Environment Uganda, who who recently accepted the invitation to become an UPGro Ambassador. Dr Tindimugaya is one of the foremost groundwater specialists in Africa and is not only the Commissioner for Water Resources Regulation in Uganda, but also vice-President of the International Assocation of Hydrogeologists (IAH) for Sub-Saharan Africa, a key figure in the Africa Groundwater Network.
…and Roadsforwater.org was mentioned as a successful and replicable example of rainwater harvesting for groundwater recharge as well as for green water capturing at the Malin Falkenmark Symposia (thanks to Jenny Grönwall of SIWI/T-GroUP who was a panelist in that session)
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