Category: Announcement
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Back to school: the future of water starts here
New educational resource developed by the Gro for GooD team launched for secondary schools in Kwale County, Kenya to increase understanding of water and the importance of the water cycle School Water Clubs teach girls about water science, policy and management Event held on 17th March to celebrate the collaboration between the UPGro team, the…
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GroFutures team bring rain to Niger in the dry season! (maybe…)
re-posted from GroFutures news Speed Read: Information collected through physical and social science methods was shared and discussed at the GroFutures Annual Workshop in Niger, with partners in and outside the study. Open-source modelling software under FREEWAT platform was successfully piloted for ‘stress testing’ the sustainability of Groundwater Development Pathways accounting for climate and land-use…
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“The borehole is not a madman” Community management of groundwater in rural Uganda
Why might it be that in Uganda waterpoint committees,as envisaged on paper, seldom exist as such on the ground? 1. Trying to separate water from the rest of village life 2. Does a water-point really need a 7 person committee? 3. Why would anyone volunteer?
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Is the Cape Town Time-bomb coming your way? Water Ministries and Operators need to do more to keep the water flowing
by Sean Furey (Skat) & Dr Anne Bousquet (GWOPA/UN-Habitat) With water shortages in Cape Town, South Africa, hitting headlines worldwide, it was timely that the African Water Association (AfWA) convened their 19th Congress in Bamado, Mali around the theme of “Accelerating access to sanitation and water for all in Africa amidst the challenges of climate change”.…
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Can road design boost water security in rural regions?
re-posted from GRIPP Roads for Water is integrating road construction and small water infrastructure to harvest rainwater from small catchments for productive use, while reducing road damage and simplifying road maintenance. Improving road drainage design is reducing soil erosion and increasing groundwater recharge. Furthermore, using roads for resource capture can prevent dangerous and inconvenient flooding, and…
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Call for standard approach to assessing water supply functionality
New UPGro paper “The need for a standard approach to assessing the functionality of rural community water supplies” by Helen Bonsor, Alan MacDonald, Vincent Casey, Richard Carter and Paul Wilson. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10040-017-1711-0 The Sustainable Development Goals have set an agenda for transformational change in water access, aiming for secure household connections globally. Despite this goal, communal…
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Call for papers – Special Issue, African Rainfall Variability: Science and Society
Colleagues, Prof Aondover Tarhule and I will serve as Guest Editors on a special issue of the open access journal Atmosphere (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere) on the above timely and exciting topic. Please find additional information on the call for papers here http://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/precipitation_Africa_Society Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2018 We invite you to consider submitting your current, previously…
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New publication: “Advances in Groundwater Governance”
A major new publication has been released on the vital topic of groundwater governance, which addresses some of the major questions being faced worldwide on how is such a vital common resource managed for the benefit of all. The issue of unlocking the potential of groundwater for the poor is explored in the chapter on…
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New UPGro paper: “Risk Factors associated with rural water supply: A 30-year retrospective study of handpumps on the south coast of Kenya”
2018 promises to be really interesting one as the UPGro (Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor) reaches maturity. There is already a lot published since 2014 (https://upgro.org/publications-papers/peer-reviewed-journal-papers/) and here is a new one, which will be of interest to RWSN members – as it has been written by active RWSN members: “Risk Factors…
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Vote for Roads for Water!
Following an UPGro Catalyst Grant, over the last three years much work has gone into making use of roads for water management. Roads have in many areas an enormous impact on hydrology. Now often negative with roads causing erosion and sedimentation, or creating floods and water logging, this can be turned around to making roads…
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