Category: Catalyst Project News
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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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“Groundwater is the key to Unlocking Green Growth in Africa”
UPGro Ambassador gives 2017 Ineson Lecture at the Geological Society of London and makes the case for the economic importance of Africa’s aquifers
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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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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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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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New pollution risk maps for Africa to help with achieving safe water for everyone
Media Release: World Water Day 22 March New pollution risk maps for Africa to help with achieving safe water for everyone. Responding to UNICEF/WHO report on Safely managed drinking water The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have published a key Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report on “Safely managed drinking…
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On the road to resilience in Ethiopia
by Barry Hague, NERC (re-blogged from NERC Planet Earth) It’s time to rethink roads. In the vital fields of flood prevention and water supply, they offer incredible potential to enhance and enrich the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. Dr Frank van Steenbergen of the Roads for Water consortium is helping to drive…
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From Tyneside to Abidjan: UPGro @ 7th RWSN Forum
Pictured: Prof. Richard Carter on the UPGro stand at the 7th RWSN Forum I had the pleasure of recently attending the 7th RWSN Forum, held from 29th November to 2nd December 2016 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The conference is only every five years so I am fortunate that it fell during the third year of…
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UPGro at the RWSN Forum
Groundwater is critical to rural water supply – for many uses and in many parts of the world, not just in Africa. Therefore understanding of aquifers and how to use them sustainably is essential to tackling rural poverty. So that is why we will be at the 7th RWSN Forum next week in Abidjan, Cote…
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