Category: Announcement
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UPGro at 44th IAH Congress
Once again, UPGro has a strong presence at the annual congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, which this year is in Dubrovnik, Croatia. UPGro highlights this year include: T2.2. THE ROLE OF GROUNDWATER IN REDUCING POVERTY Conveners: Alan Macdonald (BGS/Hidden Crisis) and Viviana Re With presentations by: T2.2.1 Tim Foster: “A Multi-Decadal Financial Assessment…
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New UPGro paper: Better map-making for manual drilling in West Africa
In a new open paper in the Hydrogeological Journal, Dr Fabio Fussi and his UPGro Catalyst team present work done in Senegal that looks at how improving hydrogeological data, maps and understanding can improve the success of manually drilled boreholes. In a region where access to safe, affordable water is limited, manual drilling provides a…
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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…
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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…
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Groundwater monitoring established in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin, Tanzania
Re-posted from GroFutures.org The GroFutures team at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA, Tanzania), led by Japhet Kashaigili (SUA) with support from PhD students, Hezron Philipo (SUA) and David Seddon (UCL), established in July (2017) a groundwater-level monitoring network in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin Observatory in southern highlands of Tanzania. This area is part of the Southern Agricultural…
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New UPGro studies explore links between groundwater and poverty in rural and urban Africa
Thanks to additional support from NERC at the beginning of 2017, some of the world’s leading experts on groundwater and poverty were brought together to test the assumptions that we make about how much we know and understand about the links between groundwater access and poverty. Does improving groundwater access reduce poverty? Or are their…
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New – Water point failure in sub-Saharan Africa: the value of a systems thinking approach
The latest output from the UPGro programme comes from Cambridge University as part of the “Hidden Crisis; Unravelling past failures for future success in Rural Water Supply” and examines the role of system-based analysis in understanding the root causes of the success or failure of rural water points. The full open paper is available to…
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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.…
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BRAVE presentation at the 9th Internationale Conference on Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation
re-blogged from BRAVE Dr Galine Yanon presented a paper at the 9th Internationale Conference on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: communicating and collaborating for resilient solutions to climate change, at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK April 21-22, 2017. The conference had more than 70 participants from 26 countries. Dr Yanon presented the paper, Local governance of…
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Promising new groundwater pollution sensor – New UPGro paper published
Shallow groundwater wells, are the main source of drinking water in many rural and peri-urban communities. The quantity and variety of shallow wells located in such communities make them more readily accessible than private or government operated deep boreholes, but shallow wells are more susceptible to faecal contamination, which is often due to leaching pit…
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