Category: Announcement
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BRAVE project holds workshop on groundwater for the poor
Source: ISD (G.D. Zaney) on www.ghana.gov.gh There is the need to develop resilient agricultural water supplies as an essential first step to ensuring safe and reliable access to water by the rural poor, Ben Ampomah, Executive Secretary of the Water Resources Commission (WRC) of Ghana, has noted. Mr Ampomah, therefore, identified groundwater has having a…
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new GroFutures website
Grofutures is one of the five UPGro Consortium Projects, led by Professor Richard Taylor at University College London (UCL). There is now a comprehensive new website that provides all the latest news and background on the study. The Objectives of Grofutures are: Inclusive groundwater governance: GroFutures will develop an inclusive, participatory framework for groundwater governance…
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Overcoming the Rural Water Supply Scandal of Handpump Corrosion
Handpump corrosion has been known about for over 30 years, the fact that it is a common problem in over 25 countries is a scandal and reflects badly on donors, implementers and governments. In this webinar, Bony Etti and Jacinta Nekesa from WaterAid Uganda describe their shocking findings from investigating boreholes and pumps (as part…
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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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T-GroUP: A Visit to Dodowa!
The T-GroUP team have been getting to grips with groundwater in Ghana: Dr. Jan-Willem Foppen visited Dodowa from 22 to 29 of July. In his visit, Jan Willem met with Dr. George Lutterodt from Central University College (CUC) in Accra, who heads the Local Transition Team (LTT). Together with Dr. Sampson Oduro-Kwarteng from Kwame Nkrumah…
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UPGro Catalyst Researcher recognised as a leading ‘Innovator under 35’ by MIT Technology Review
Dr Sharon Velasquez Orta (Newcastle University) has been recognised by the MIT Technology Review as one the leading “Innovators under 35” for 2015 for her work on developing a low-cost biosensor of measuring groundwater quality. In the UPGro Catalyst project (INGROUND), she and colleagues from Newcastle University and Ardhi University have been developing the sensor…
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Synthesis of the Catalyst projects now available
“Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor (UPGro), is a seven-year international research programme funded by the United Kingdom. It focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor.…
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