Category: Catalyst Project News
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End of project workshop summary: Prospection for low-fluoride sources in Ethiopia
Report fluoride – Brief Report presenting main findings The “Improving access to safe drinking water_prospection for low-fluoride sources Groundwater“ Catalyst project has released a summary report of the main findings, presented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in August.
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Will the wells run dry? An urgent need for better groundwater monitoring in Zimbabwe and Malawi identified.
Daina Mudimbu, from the University of Zimbabwe, presented the work in “Resource limitations to sustainability of groundwater well-points in basement complex regions of SSA” Catalyst Study. Download Presentation (PDF)
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Tracking pollution from a small town in Zambia
James Sorenson (BGS) walked us through his poster presentation for his Catalyst Project: Mapping groundwater quality degradation beneath growing rural towns in Sub Saharan Africa. The story starts with a pesticide found in slug pellets, which was unexpectedly detected in UK groundwater. This prompted this research to look for similar chemicals in African groundwater, What…
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AMGRAF: increasing the capability of households and communities to improve their own lives
Dr Elisabeth Oughton (Newcastle University) presented aspects of the work of the UPGro project: AMGRAF – Adaptive Management of Groundwater in Africa, with a focus on the work in Ethiopia. It is working from the bottom up to develop and promote the uptake of community management of shallow groundwater management. The researchers looked carefully at…
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New Catalyst Project website: ARIGA
ARIGA is the Assessing Risk of Investment in Groundwater Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa project being led by the World Forestry Centre in Kenya/ICRAF: This project aims to find a more holistic way of assessing risks around the development of groundwater resources. The Wajir pipeline project was taken as a case study to measure the value…
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Fluoridation vs. fluorosis: two faces of the same medal
reposted with permission from http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/thewaterblog Posted by Sara Datturi June 30, 2014 Fluorine (F2 of F) is the element # 9 in the Periodic Table. Due to its high reactivity, it is not found freely in nature, but it often combines with other elements. For instance, F represents 0.064% of the earth crust’s mass. In…
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New Paper – Roads for water: the unused potential
A new paper by Diego Garcia-Landarte Puertas, Kifle Woldearegay, Lyla Mehta, Martin Van Beusekom, Marta Agujetas Peréz and Frank Van Steenbergen from the Catalyst Project: Optimising Road Development for Groundwater Recharge and Retention Download the open access Waterlines paper from Practical Action. Abstract: “Roads are generally perceived as infrastructure to deliver transport services, but they…
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UPGro Catalyst Project Summaries now available in French!
We are delighted to announce that the 15 UPGro catalyst project summaries have been translated into French. UPGro is focusing on groundwater research across Sub-Saharan Africa, thus we understand the importance of sharing knowledge and expertise with Francophone African colleagues. To download the summaries as PDF documents, visit the Catalyst Project page
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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
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