Category: Africa Groundwater Atlas
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Meet UPGro at the 7th RWSN Forum
As part of our mission to connect research with policy and practice, UPGro is proud to become a Bronze Sponsor of the 7th RWSN Forum, which will be held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire at the end of November this year. The RWSN Forum is held only every 5 years and is the global event on…
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Africa Groundwater Atlas: An introduction to the groundwater resources of 51 African countries
The new online Africa Groundwater Atlas is an introduction to the groundwater resources of 51 African countries, and a gateway to further information. The British Geological Survey has developed the Africa Groundwater Atlas in partnership with the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Burdon Groundwater Network for Developing Countries, and with more than 50 collaborating groundwater…
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New Arsenic & Fluoride mapping tool
The Eawag “Groundwater Assessment Platform”, funded by SDC, is now live: http://www.gapmaps.org/ “Over 300 million people worldwide use groundwater contaminated with arsenic or fluoride as a source of drinking water. The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) has developed a method whereby the risk of contamination in a given area can be…
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The magic and mystery of groundwater data
To be effective, drinking water programmes relying on groundwater need good quality and well managed groundwater data. Unfortunately this is an overlooked, “techy domain”. The presentations and discussants on this webinar explain the typical problems of groundwater data collection, management and use. They draw on first hand examples of: groundwater data use in Uganda and…
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Research follow-up: assessing groundwater beneath Africa
Re-blogged from environmental research web, 6 October 2015 Alan MacDonald and colleagues published their map of African groundwater resources in Environmental Research Letters three years ago; since then there’s been much progress, including the commencement of the UPGro (Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor) programme
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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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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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