Category: GroFutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub Saharan Africa
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Resilience of Rural Groundwater Supplies to Climate Change
Key Note Presentation by Prof. Alan MacDonald @ 1st SADC Groundwater Conference Keywords: (Drought, Climate, Change, Infrastructure, Groundwater Resources, Resilience). “Recent droughts have highlighted the need to understand and forecast the resilience of water supplies to climate variability. Resilience of groundwater supplies is determined by several factors: groundwater storage; long term recharge; permeability; and the infrastructure…
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Facing the groundwater threats and opportunities in Southern Africa
This week, regional and international water experts have converged on Johannesburg at the 1st Groundwater Conference of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The event has been convened by the SADC Groundwater Management Institute (GMI) in assocciation with a number of partners including GRIPP UPGro has a strong presence at the event as part of the…
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The Baseflow Detective looking to uncover the secrets of Tanzania’s rivers
Interview with Hezron Philipo, GroFutures by Sean Furey, Skat Foundation Hezron Philipo has a BSc in Geology (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), MSc in Water Resources and Environmental Management (University of Twente at ITC, The Netherlands) and is currently doing his PhD research at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania as part of the…
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New paper helps unravel the mysteries of groundwater recharge in Benin
A new paper entitled: Relationships between rainfall and groundwater recharge in seasonally humid Benin: a comparative analysis of long-term hydrographs in sedimentary and crystalline aquifers has been published by the GroFutures team in collaboration with the GRIBA project (Groundwater Resources In Basement rocks of Africa), Belgian NGO – PROTOS, and Via Water in the Netherlands. Key Points: Groundwater Recharge –…
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New paper: No evidence found of large scale groundwater depletion in major African aquifers
A new paper has been published by the GroFutures team as part of a Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Groundwater from River Basin to Global Scales” Key Points : – GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite can be used to estimate changes in water storage on time resolution of 1 month and a spatial…
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Water monitoring upgraded in Upper Great Ruaha, Tanzania
re-posted from GroFutures The GroFutures Team, working with the Tanzanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation, expanded monitoring infrastructure in the Upper Great Ruaha Observatory (UGRO) to include interactions between groundwater and surface water. An outstanding question regarding the sustainability of groundwater withdrawals for irrigation and drinking-water supplies is whether groundwater in the agriculturally intensive lowlands is replenished…
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Has Africa run out of water? | Prof. Alan MacDonald | TEDxHeriotWattUniversity
Professor Alan MacDonald (BGS/UPGro Hidden Crisis and GroFutures) gave a talk at a recent TEDx event at Heriot Watt University in Scotland. Watch it on YouTube:
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GroFutures team bring rain to Niger in the dry season! (maybe…)
re-posted from GroFutures news Speed Read: Information collected through physical and social science methods was shared and discussed at the GroFutures Annual Workshop in Niger, with partners in and outside the study. Open-source modelling software under FREEWAT platform was successfully piloted for ‘stress testing’ the sustainability of Groundwater Development Pathways accounting for climate and land-use…
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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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GRIPP: Invisible treasures – Groundwater for Africa
This piece is from an original coverage in April 2017, in German in the magazine Africa Wirtschaft (Africa Economy) Reliable access to water is still a problem in Africa. The Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP), a group of 30 international partners, is committed to providing greater security of supply and sustainable management. The focus: groundwater. Africa’s economy is growing. Technical developments, a broader middle class and…
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