Category: GroFutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub Saharan Africa
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GroFutures launched at Inception Workshop in Addis Ababa
Some 25 social and physical scientists from 12 participating organisations in 11 different countries met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to kick-off the GroFutures project. The GroFutures team began the workshop with a field trip to the Upper Awash Basin to assess changing patterns of groundwater management and use. Team members then worked together to review…
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new GroFutures website
Grofutures is one of the five UPGro Consortium Projects, led by Professor Richard Taylor at University College London (UCL). There is now a comprehensive new website that provides all the latest news and background on the study. The Objectives of Grofutures are: Inclusive groundwater governance: GroFutures will develop an inclusive, participatory framework for groundwater governance…
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“When wells run dry” Prof. Richard Taylor writes in Nature
“A global analysis reveals growing societal dependence on the use of non-renewable freshwater resources that depletes groundwater reserves and undermines human resilience to water scarcity in a warming world” Full article available for Nature subscribers (paywall): Nature, 516, 179–180, (11 December 2014) doi:10.1038/516179a In the short article, Prof. Taylor raises concern about groundwater depletion, as…
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Groundwater Recharge
21 October 2014 [PDF presentation] Groundwater Recharge: will the pumps run dry? [PDF presentation] Rural Roads for Recharge
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