Category: Consortium Project News
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Investigating water governance arrangements in Balaka District, Malawi – news from the field
by Naomi Oates, Grantham institute, UPGro Hidden Crisis My first impressions of Malawi? It is hot! Temperatures are reaching 37°C in Balaka district at the moment. Around midday it is particularly difficult to move around in the scorching sun – much preferable to sit under a shady tree until the heat dissipates a little (usually it…
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Meeting Kenyan girls’ thirst for groundwater knowledge through ‘Water Clubs’
School water clubs in Kenya are inspiring girls and boys to learn more about water in their everyday lives, and their futures.
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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 takes advice from leading African experts
The day before the 2017 Ineson Lecture, a meeting was held in the Council Chamber of the Geological Society in London at which the project leaders, programme board members from NERC and DFID, and the Knowledge Broker team met with three of the UPGro Ambassadors: Dr Callist Tindimugaya, Ministry of Water & Environment, Uganda; Prof.…
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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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BRAVE presented at Fifth iLEAPS Science Conference, Oxford, September 11-14
BRAVE was featured in a presentation by Dr Peter Cook at the Fifth Annual iLEAPS (Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study Conference. iLEAPS is a global research project of Future Earth. This year’s theme, “Understanding the impact of land-atmosphere exchanges,” organised by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology of the National Environment Research Council. Dr Cook presented recent…
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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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Manage what you measure: Better groundwater monitoring comes to West Africa
re-posted from BRAVE by David MacDonald, British Geological Survey A key component of water resource management is the sound scientific understanding of water flows and storage. Where water supplies are sourced through wells and boreholes in the underlying rocks, we need to understand the volumes of water stored there and how natural climate variability and…
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Uncovering how groundwater is used, in Tanzania
re-posted from: Grofutures.org The GroFutures team in Tanzania has just completed the data collection component of the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) exercise in the Great Ruaha Basin of Tanzania. The team comprised Andrew Tarimo, Devotha Mosha Kilave, Gebregziabher Gebrehaweria and Imogen Bellwood-Howard. Following initial training at Sokoine University of Agriculture, the team moved to the study site in Mbarali…
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UPGro research on cover of Ambio
GroFutures water scarcity article featured on journal cover A critical review of water scarcity metrics written by UCL PhD student, Simon Damkjaer, and GroFutures PI, Richard Taylor, is featured on the cover of this month’s issue of Ambio. The article argues that current metrics including those used to track progress toward the UN Sustainable Development…
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