Category: Webinars and Films

  • 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…

  • Groundwater Governance

    10th March 2015 Two presentations followed extensive discussion. Groundwater risks and institutional responses in Kwale, Kenya (Jacob Katuva, Oxford University) and From Codes of Practice to a Code of Conduct – groundwater governance in Kenya from a drillers perspective (Tom Armstrong, JB Drilling). Practical issues of borehole design and construction, groundwater quality, gender and poverty…

  • Groundwater Resources and Supplies in Africa

    Two research-based presentations by: Joy Obando (Kenyatta University, Kenya) and Dan Lapworth (British Geological Survey, UK). With a focus on selected sites in in Comoros, Tanzania and Kenya, Obando’s presentation sets out key social and economic issues with respect to groundwater resources in coastal East Africa. Lapworth’s presentation examines the changes in water access and…

  • Africa Groundwater Research

    9th December 2014 [PDF] Water for Wajir [PDF] Hidden Crisis – handpump failure in Uganda In this webinar, Jan de Leeuw presented his project’s work in developing and using a decision-support tool to enable a municipality to quantify the risk of developing a major new groundwater source from the Merti Aquifer, in Kenya. John Chilton…

  • Mapping Groundwater Quality for Decision-Makers

    25 November 2014 In this webinar, Pauline Smedley from the British Geological Survey presents the work done to get a better understanding of the occurance of high natural fluoride in the groundwater of the Ethiopian Rift Valley. High fluoride damages teeth and bones, particularly in children, but there are limited alternate source of water. Dr…

  • Groundwater Recharge

    21 October 2014 [PDF presentation] Groundwater Recharge: will the pumps run dry? [PDF presentation] Rural Roads for Recharge

  • Poster presentations about work in Zambia and Kenya (Video)
    Poster presentations about work in Zambia and Kenya (Video)

    At the IAH Congress, we asked two of the UPGro researchers to present their posters: Jacob Mutua, Rural Focus Ltd, Kenya, describing the “Risks and Institutional Responses for Poverty Reduction in Rural Africa” Catalyst project Dr Dan Lapworth talks about the project that he has been leading: “Mapping groundwater quality degradation beneath growing rural towns…

  • Meet the researchers: Daina Mudimbu (Video)

    Daina Mudimbu, University of Zimbabe, from the project: Resource limitations to sustainability of groundwater well-points in basement complex regions of SSA

  • “Groundwater: So What?” Keynote by Prof. Richard Carter
    “Groundwater: So What?” Keynote by Prof. Richard Carter

    In his key note speech, Professor Richard Carter urged the delegation at the 41st IAH Congress to do more to explain why groundwater matters and why hydrogeological science is important.

  • Fluoride in Groundwater: A debilitating scourge

    Webinar hosted by TheWaterChannel Speakers: Dr Seifu Kebede, Sara Datturi Watch recording Part 1: Dr Seifu Kebede- Genesis of Fluoride in Groundwater in Ethiopia Part 2: Sara Datturi- Fluorosis Mitigation in Ethiopian Central Rift Valley Part 3: Q and A session