Category: ARIGA: Assessing Risks of Investment in Groundwater Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Merti aquifer: Kenya’s largest water source faced with resistance

    By Peter Mutai NAIROBI (Xinhua) —Wajir town in Northern Kenya has never had a regular water supply system forcing majority of the residents to use water drawn directly from shallow wells that exposes them to many potentially harmful elements.

  • 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…

  • Do you trust your gut instinct?

    This blog post, for the ARIGA Catalyst Project, was originally published as part of the ‘Talking Science’ and Water, Land and Ecosystems Blog .  Making better development decisions with decision analysis tools Making decisions is difficult. Most of us spend a lot of time procrastinating about decisions in our everyday lives, struggling to weigh pros…