Author: RWSN Secretariat
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Upcoming UK event – Groundwater, poverty and development
Save the date: Friday 28th November 2014 Timing: 0900 – 1700, lunch provided. Place: Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8NJ, UK To register to attend, or watch online, visit: www.odi.org/events/4037-groundwater-poverty-development and click on “Register” This one-day meeting, jointly convened by the UPGro Knowledge Broker Team and ODI’s Water Policy Programme, will showcase…
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Poster presentations about work in Zambia and Kenya (Video)
At the IAH Congress, we asked two of the UPGro researchers to present their posters: Jacob Mutua, Rural Focus Ltd, Kenya, describing the “Risks and Institutional Responses for Poverty Reduction in Rural Africa” Catalyst project Dr Dan Lapworth talks about the project that he has been leading: “Mapping groundwater quality degradation beneath growing rural towns…
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Meet the researchers: Daina Mudimbu (Video)
Daina Mudimbu, University of Zimbabe, from the project: Resource limitations to sustainability of groundwater well-points in basement complex regions of SSA
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High-Tech meets Low-Tech: Using remote sensing to help manual drilling
Drilling for water can be expensive: it can cost up to £10,000 to drill a borehole that will have a £500 handpump installed on it. However, there are alternatives – manual drilling methods are often most effective and just as good quality, but the challenge for the drillers is knowing where they can find good…
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End of project workshop summary: Prospection for low-fluoride sources in Ethiopia
Report fluoride – Brief Report presenting main findings The “Improving access to safe drinking water_prospection for low-fluoride sources Groundwater“ Catalyst project has released a summary report of the main findings, presented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in August.
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A successful IAH Congress comes to a close
The 41st IAH Congress is coming at an end. It has been a brilliant week for learning more about the importance of hydrogeology and the latest developments in groundwater science.
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“Groundwater: So What?” Keynote by Prof. Richard Carter
In his key note speech, Professor Richard Carter urged the delegation at the 41st IAH Congress to do more to explain why groundwater matters and why hydrogeological science is important.
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Will the wells run dry? An urgent need for better groundwater monitoring in Zimbabwe and Malawi identified.
Daina Mudimbu, from the University of Zimbabwe, presented the work in “Resource limitations to sustainability of groundwater well-points in basement complex regions of SSA” Catalyst Study. Download Presentation (PDF)
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Africa Groundwater Atlas launched officially
Alan MacDonald, Brighid Ó Dochartaigh and Kirsty Upton of BGS introduced the new Africa Groundwater Atlas, which has been funded through the UPGro programme. Alan explained that it was a scientific paper with a continental overview of aquifers in Africa that attracted publicity that helped to unlock funding for a fuller Atlas, with a wikipedia…
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