Category: Consortium Project News
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BRAVE project holds workshop on groundwater for the poor
Source: ISD (G.D. Zaney) on www.ghana.gov.gh There is the need to develop resilient agricultural water supplies as an essential first step to ensuring safe and reliable access to water by the rural poor, Ben Ampomah, Executive Secretary of the Water Resources Commission (WRC) of Ghana, has noted. Mr Ampomah, therefore, identified groundwater has having a…
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T-Group MSc. Research Students Arrive in Tanzania
by: Maryam Nastar (on T-group.science) Three students from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education have arrived in Dar es Salaam and will commence their master’s thesis field work in the coming week. Shabana Abbas, Carlos Aponte and Tlhoriso Morienyane will be based in Arusha for three months to study different aspects of groundwater. Their thesis work…
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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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Stop the Rot – helps us stop the scandal of pump corrosion
This week RWSN/UPGro hosted a webinar on: Overcoming the Rural Water Supply Scandal of Handpump Corrosion (RWSN) – Recording (English) Dépasser le scandale de la corrosion des pompes manuelles dans l’approvisionnement rural en eau (RWSN) – Recording (French) The key points are: handpump corrosion has been known about for 30 years, it is avoidable yet…
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Research: Is climate change making groundwater supplies in Sub-Saharan Africa less reliable?
source: University of Reading blog Over 500 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend upon groundwater supplies, and this is set to rise dramatically. Safe and reliable access to water for the rural poor is a critical factor when reducing the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. As the majority of poor people in…
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Overcoming the Rural Water Supply Scandal of Handpump Corrosion
Handpump corrosion has been known about for over 30 years, the fact that it is a common problem in over 25 countries is a scandal and reflects badly on donors, implementers and governments. In this webinar, Bony Etti and Jacinta Nekesa from WaterAid Uganda describe their shocking findings from investigating boreholes and pumps (as part…
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Research follow-up: assessing groundwater beneath Africa
Re-blogged from environmental research web, 6 October 2015 Alan MacDonald and colleagues published their map of African groundwater resources in Environmental Research Letters three years ago; since then there’s been much progress, including the commencement of the UPGro (Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor) programme
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T-GRoUP kicks off
By Thloriso Morienyane and Jan Willem Foppen (reposted from: t-group.science) From 1-3 September, the T-GroUP kick off workshop took place at UNESCO-IHE in Delft. The main purpose of the workshop was to get to know each other, to learn more about Transition Management and Learning Alliances, to discuss data collection programs, to identify overlaps and…
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Hidden Crisis: Borehole failure highlighted in Uganda Sector Performance Report
The UPGro Hidden Crisis project, led by Prof. Alan MacDonald at BGS, has already made an impact in its first study country – Uganda. Each year, the Ministry of Water and Environment coordinates a Joint Sector Review (JSR) and produces a Sector Performance Report (SPR) which reports on progress in the water and environment sectors…
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UPGro win at Stockholm World Water Week
Patrick Thomson, from the Oxford-led UPGro project “Gro For Good”, has won the prize for the best poster at World Water Week 2015 for the work that he and colleagues at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford have been doing on shallow groundwater monitoring using Smart Handpumps in Kenya. This work will continue under…
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