Category: Event
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Sanitation and Water for All? a view from the SWA partner meeting
Last week, I attended the Sanitation & Water for All (SWA), partnership meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. Skat Foundation is a member of the Research & Learning constituency of SWA and I was there, among other things, to represent RWSN, both to raise relevant issues from our network with SWA partners, but also to find…
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UPGro win at Stockholm World Water Week
Patrick Thomson, from the Oxford-led UPGro project “Gro For Good”, has won the prize for the best poster at World Water Week 2015 for the work that he and colleagues at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford have been doing on shallow groundwater monitoring using Smart Handpumps in Kenya. This work will continue under…
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UPGro at Stockholm World Water Week
UPGro and RWSN will have stand and networking area at this year’s Stockholm World Water Week (23-29 August). If you are there, please come along and join in the conversation as we ask the question – what do the Sustainable Development Goals mean for groundwater use and management in Africa? You can meet a number…
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Gro For Good workshop: 23 March, Kwale County, Kenya
The Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development (GRo for Good) project is holding a workshop on 23rd March 2015 in Kwale County, Kenya as part of the Africa-wide UPGRo programme funded by NERC, ESRC and UK DFID. Improved understanding of groundwater risks and institutional responses against competing growth and development goals is central to…
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Call for papers on “Groundwater in rural areas: the challenges of improving local water security”
We are delighted that Professor Alan MacDonald (British Geological Survey), who is leading one of the Hidden Crisis UPGro project the Africa Groundwater Atlas, and Professor Richard Taylor who is the leading the UPGro GroFutures project and the Groundwater Chronicles Consortium with are chairing sessions at the 2015 IAH Congress in Rome, 13—18 September: Session…
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UPGro invited by UNICEF to present at the UN Zaragoza Conference
(with thanks to John Chilton, Sharon Velasquez-Orta and Jose Gesti-Canuto) The UN-Water Annual Zaragoza Conferences serve UN-Water to prepare for World Water Day, which in 2015 will focus on “water and sustainable development” and celebrated the end of the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’, so it was especially important for taking stock of…
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ODI/UPGro “Groundwater, poverty and development” videos now online
If you missed the UPGro event at the ODI in London last month, or want to re-live it, the video recordings of the event are now available online on the ODI website: http://www.odi.org/events/4037-groundwater-poverty-development#audiovideo Again, many thanks to the ODI for being such fantastic host
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New IGRAC film explains why groundwater is so essential – in 3 minutes
This importance of programmes like UPGro is emphasised in this new animated short from IGRAC (International Groundwater Resources Assessment):
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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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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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