(with thanks to John Chilton, Sharon Velasquez-Orta and Jose Gesti-Canuto) The UN-Water Annual Zaragoza Conferences serve UN-Water to prepare for World Water Day, which in 2015 will focus on "water and sustainable development" and celebrated the end of the International…
Read More UPGro invited by UNICEF to present at the UN Zaragoza Conference
Dan Lapworth, Jim Wright and Steve Pedley are working to find out. Reproduced from Planet Earth Winter 2014, p 22-23 Across much of Africa, cities are growing quickly. Current projections estimate that by 2050, 60 per cent of the population…
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…
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…
Roads can devastate a landscape - scarring it, creating barriers for wildlife and accelerating stormwater so that valuable farmland, habitats and homes get washed away or polluted. What if didn't have to be that way? What if roads would work…
Read More How to… design roads for water harvesting and groundwater recharge
Save the date: Friday 28th November 2014 Timing: 0900 – 1700, lunch provided. Place: Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8NJ, UK To register to attend, or watch online, visit: http://www.odi.org/events/4037-groundwater-poverty-development and click on "Register" This one-day meeting,…
Read More Upcoming UK event – Groundwater, poverty and development
from the WaterChannel: Question: How can dusty roads provide water? Answer: By harvesting and storing rainwater when it falls on them. A 30 mm rainfall over a 1-kilometre stretch of road can produce up to 100,000 litres of water. This number…
Read More Roads for Water: Effecting Change in Tigray, Ethiopia
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…
Read More Poster presentations about work in Zambia and Kenya (Video)
Daina Mudimbu, University of Zimbabe, from the project: Resource limitations to sustainability of groundwater well-points in basement complex regions of SSA
Drilling for water can be expensive: it can cost up to £10,000 to drill a borehole that will have a £500 handpump installed on it. However, there are alternatives - manual drilling methods are often most effective and just as…
Read More High-Tech meets Low-Tech: Using remote sensing to help manual drilling
UPGro - African Groundwater 2020 