Author: RWSN Secretariat
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Tracking pollution from a small town in Zambia
James Sorenson (BGS) walked us through his poster presentation for his Catalyst Project: Mapping groundwater quality degradation beneath growing rural towns in Sub Saharan Africa. The story starts with a pesticide found in slug pellets, which was unexpectedly detected in UK groundwater. This prompted this research to look for similar chemicals in African groundwater, What…
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AMGRAF: increasing the capability of households and communities to improve their own lives
Dr Elisabeth Oughton (Newcastle University) presented aspects of the work of the UPGro project: AMGRAF – Adaptive Management of Groundwater in Africa, with a focus on the work in Ethiopia. It is working from the bottom up to develop and promote the uptake of community management of shallow groundwater management. The researchers looked carefully at…
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41st IAH Congress – UPGro taking centre stage in the hydrogeological community
Today, the 41st Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) gets underway in Marrakech, Morocco with a workshop on long term groundwater records. The session is being led by Prof. Richard Taylor (University College London) and Dr. Guillaume Favreau (IRD) and is part of the UPGro work on the Africa Groundwater Atlas. So far…
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What can hydrogeologists contribute to safe water supply and poverty reduction?
This question is based on the key role that groundwater plays in the provision of reliable water supplies in many regions of the world. Understanding the complex, hidden groundwater environment is vital to ensure water supplies are reliable, safe and cost effective. Hydrogeologists without Borders UK (HWB-UK) asks the question to leading figures within the…
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New Catalyst Project website: ARIGA
ARIGA is the Assessing Risk of Investment in Groundwater Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa project being led by the World Forestry Centre in Kenya/ICRAF: This project aims to find a more holistic way of assessing risks around the development of groundwater resources. The Wajir pipeline project was taken as a case study to measure the value…
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UPGro featured in “Mining, People and the Environment” magazine
Groundwater in Africa is a vital resource, and one that can be damaged, so that is why we are delighted that UPGro is featured in the July 2014 issue of Mining, People and Environment Magazine. Many thanks to Ruth Green, from the editorial team!
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Fluoridation vs. fluorosis: two faces of the same medal
reposted with permission from http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/thewaterblog Posted by Sara Datturi June 30, 2014 Fluorine (F2 of F) is the element # 9 in the Periodic Table. Due to its high reactivity, it is not found freely in nature, but it often combines with other elements. For instance, F represents 0.064% of the earth crust’s mass. In…
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Africa Groundwater Literature Archive – beta version now online
Visit: www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas This archive of groundwater literature for Africa is being developed as part of the Africa Groundwater Atlas project, through the Unlocking the Potential for Groundwater for the Poor (UPGro) research programme. The Africa Groundwater Atlas project will make available an archive of groundwater literature related to Africa, searchable by country and keywords a…
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New Paper – Roads for water: the unused potential
A new paper by Diego Garcia-Landarte Puertas, Kifle Woldearegay, Lyla Mehta, Martin Van Beusekom, Marta Agujetas Peréz and Frank Van Steenbergen from the Catalyst Project: Optimising Road Development for Groundwater Recharge and Retention Download the open access Waterlines paper from Practical Action. Abstract: “Roads are generally perceived as infrastructure to deliver transport services, but they…
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