Category: Consortium Project News

  • T-GroUP: A Visit to Dodowa!

    The T-GroUP team have been getting to grips with groundwater in Ghana: Dr. Jan-Willem Foppen visited Dodowa from 22 to 29 of July. In his visit, Jan Willem met with Dr. George Lutterodt from Central University College (CUC) in Accra, who heads the Local Transition Team (LTT). Together with Dr. Sampson Oduro-Kwarteng from Kwame Nkrumah…

  • UPGro Consortium Kick-Off

    On 22nd April this year, the UPGro Consortium phase was officially launched at a special event in London. It was an opportunity for representatives from the five projects, the funders and the knowledge broker team to meet and present to each other what they plan to do over the coming four years. Below you can…

  • Gro For Good workshop: 23 March, Kwale County, Kenya
    Gro For Good workshop: 23 March, Kwale County, Kenya

    The Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development (GRo for Good) project is holding a workshop on 23rd March 2015 in Kwale County, Kenya as part of the Africa-wide UPGRo programme funded by NERC, ESRC and UK DFID. Improved understanding of groundwater risks and institutional responses against competing growth and development goals is central to…

  • Groundwater Governance

    10th March 2015 Two presentations followed extensive discussion. Groundwater risks and institutional responses in Kwale, Kenya (Jacob Katuva, Oxford University) and From Codes of Practice to a Code of Conduct – groundwater governance in Kenya from a drillers perspective (Tom Armstrong, JB Drilling). Practical issues of borehole design and construction, groundwater quality, gender and poverty…

  • UPGro invited by UNICEF to present at the UN Zaragoza Conference
    UPGro invited by UNICEF to present at the UN Zaragoza Conference

    (with thanks to John Chilton, Sharon Velasquez-Orta and Jose Gesti-Canuto) The UN-Water Annual Zaragoza Conferences serve UN-Water to prepare for World Water Day, which in 2015 will focus on “water and sustainable development” and celebrated the end of the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’, so it was especially important for taking stock of…

  • “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…

  • Africa Groundwater Research

    9th December 2014 [PDF] Water for Wajir [PDF] Hidden Crisis – handpump failure in Uganda In this webinar, Jan de Leeuw presented his project’s work in developing and using a decision-support tool to enable a municipality to quantify the risk of developing a major new groundwater source from the Merti Aquifer, in Kenya. John Chilton…

  • UPGro Consortium Projects Announced

    The next phase of UPGro research has been set in motion with the announcement of which research teams and projects will be funded over the next five years.  The competition was fierce and many fantastic ideas didn’t make it – but we sincerely hope that other research funders will take note and provide support. Five…

  • Groundwater Recharge

    21 October 2014 [PDF presentation] Groundwater Recharge: will the pumps run dry? [PDF presentation] Rural Roads for Recharge