Category: Africa Groundwater Atlas

  • Africa Groundwater Atlas for Nigeria wins prestigious national award

    Africa Groundwater Atlas for Nigeria wins prestigious national award

    The Nigerian Mining & Geosciences Society (NMGS) and Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) have awarded Prof. Moshood Tijani, Dr Kirsty Upton, Brighid O‘Dochartaigh and Imogen Bellwood-Howard their 2020 Okezie Prize for ‘Africa Groundwater Atlas: Hydrogeology of Nigeria’. . The NMGS/NGSA/OKEZIE PRIZE, endowed by the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA), is in honour of the first…

  • Wikipedia Edit-a-thon helps spread groundwater knowledge

    Wikipedia Edit-a-thon helps spread groundwater knowledge

    (photo: Brighid O’Dochartaigh, BGS @beodoch) Yesterday, delegates at the IAH 2019 Congress, in Malaga, took part in an official Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, led by BGS. This is an event where people get together to edit Wikipedia – often focused on a specific topic. It is an opportunity for people with similar interests to get together to…

  • Download digital country hydrogeology maps of Africa from the Africa Groundwater Atlas

    Download digital country hydrogeology maps of Africa from the Africa Groundwater Atlas

    The Africa Groundwater Atlas has released digital, GIS-enabled, national-scale hydrogeology maps for 38 African countries, which are freely available to download. The online, open-access Africa Groundwater Atlas was launched in 2016. It brings together groundwater information from many sources and provides a consistent overview of groundwater resources at a country scale for 51 countries in…

  • Africa Groundwater Atlas in Switzerland

    Africa Groundwater Atlas in Switzerland

    On 6 September, the Swiss Water Partnership organised a learning event for partners on “Assessment of Surface and Groundwater” featuring a variety of talks and discussions relating to both domestic water resources and in development cooperation contexts. The event was hosted by the Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADAL) at ETH Zurich. Sean Furey, from Skat/UPGro…

  • Africa Rocks! @WEDC 40

    Africa Rocks! @WEDC 40

    Over the last year, the UPGro Knowledge Broker and RWSN team has been on tour promoting the potential of Africa’s groundwater as a catalyst for tackling poverty and the practical challenges of improving scientific understand and professionalism of implementation. These “Africa Rocks!” sessions in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire), Livingstone (Zambia) have showcased…

  • Groundwater – the earth’s renewable wealth

    Groundwater – the earth’s renewable wealth

    By Sean Furey, Skat Foundation/RWSN/UPGro Where does wealth come from? At its most basic, it is the difference between how much you invest in a product or service and how much you get from selling it. If the difference is positive you get wealth, if it is negative then you get trouble. For a country…

  • Africa Groundwater Atlas – your opinion / votre avis

    Africa Groundwater Atlas – your opinion / votre avis

    Dear colleagues / Chers/Chères collègues (texte en français ci-dessous) Some of you may already have seen and used the Africa Groundwater Atlas. This is a new online resource with groundwater information for all African countries. It is linked to the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive – an expanding online repository of documents on groundwater in Africa.…

  • Africa Groundwater Atlas: “X” marks the spot, but where’s the map? #60IAH2016

    Drilling for water is a fraught business in Africa – like being a pirate without a treasure map. In many areas, the rock is old – some of the oldest on our planet. This cracked, shattered stone that is blasted by desert heat or soaked in tropical rains with often only a thin covering of…

  • Atlas des eaux souterraines africaines : le « X » indique la position, mais où se trouve la carte ? #60IAH2016

    Forer pour trouver de l’eau est une entreprise très incertaine en Afrique – un peu comme être pirate sans avoir de carte au trésor. Dans beaucoup de régions, les roches sont très anciennes, parmi les plus vieilles de la planète. Ces pierres fendues, explosées par la chaleur du soleil ou détrempées par les pluies tropicales…

  • UPGro at the 43rd IAH Congress, Montpellier

    Many UPGro researchers will be assembling in Montpellier, France for the 43rd Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH). If you are going, looking out for the following presentations (the abstract links won’t work until after 25 September). You can find the full online programme on the event website: www.60iah2016.org/en/programme/final-programme