Category: Other new African Groundwater Research
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Drilling dialogues: conversations about drilling professionalism and the rise of the off-grid city
by Adrian Healy, Cardiff University, UK The African Water Association Congress 2020 witnessed an increasing focus on the important role groundwater plays in urban water supplies across Africa. It was my pleasure to facilitate two lively panel debates on what are important, but often overlooked, themes in the development of groundwater resources. The first panel…
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Study shows boreholes are key to drought resilience in Ethiopia
BGS Press Release Installing more boreholes to tap underground water will improve rural Ethiopian communities’ resilience to drought, according to a new report. Research carried out by the British Geological Survey (BGS), the University of Addis Ababa and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) showed that people who have access to groundwater from boreholes are much…
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OPINION:- It’s time to look underground for climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa
Karen G. Villholth is a Principal Researcher with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE), as well as Coordinator of the Global Groundwater Initiative GRIPP and a team member from UPGro GroFutures From Thomson Reuters New research reveals critical groundwater-related climate change impacts and resilience strategies In 2014-2016, southern Africa saw its worst drought…
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Get a GRIPP on groundwater: response to the UN-Water SDG 6 Synthesis Report
UN-Water is presently seeking feedback on their SDG 6 Synthesis Report, which will help inform the assessment by the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) of the progress of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on Clean Water and Sanitation. The assessment of SDG 6 is part of a larger effort by the HLPF to…
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Great potential for groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Brief by IWRA
re-posted from GRIPP A new policy brief titled Sustainable Groundwater Development for Improved Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa was published by the International Water Resources Association (IWRA). Based on work carried out by IWMI and partners through the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and WLE, the brief describes the potential and constraints of groundwater irrigation Sub-Saharan Africa. At…
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Scientific African – new journal launched to showcase African research
from: Sci-Dev African researchers face the lack of platforms to publish their research Open access scientific journal to showcase African research has been launched There is need for increased investment in more Pan-African journals, expert says from the Elsevier website: Scientific African is owned by the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and operated by the NEF Community…
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“Groundwater around the World” – free downloadable book now available
Not directly relate to UPGro, but probably of interest: “Groundwater around the World” (2013) is a book by Jean Margat and Jac van der Gunn who have had long, distinguished careers as hydrogeologists. The focus of the book is on showing the role and geographic diversity of groundwater, with case studies of real-life groundwater management.…
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Dramatic water supply problems in southern Africa: BGR hydrogeologists call for new exploration strategy for semi-fossil aquifers
“Long-lasting periods of drought due to climate change are causing significant water supply problems also in southern Africa – with increasingly serious consequences for agriculture as well as directly for the people. In large cities such as Cape Town, drinking water has already to be rationed. Current projects of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and…
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Groundwater mapping “fundamental” to climate resilient water supplies in Ethiopia
by Dr John Butterworth, IRC WASH, re-posted with permission Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more. The small town of Afdera in the north of Afar region,…
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UNICEF to commission remote sensing prospection of groundwater in Ethiopia
UNICEF Ethiopia plans in 2018 to map the groundwater potential of 41 woredas (administrative divisions) within EU’s Resilience Building programme (RESET II). The methodology used in 2016/17 can be found in the links below: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/hydrogeological-study-drought-affected-areas-afar-somali-oromia-and-snnp-regions-ethiopia-part-1 http://washdev.iwaponline.com/content/early/2016/07/08/washdev.2016.021 The 2018 methodology will have the addition of a socio-economic component with rangeland inputs from PRIMEhttps://prime-ethiopia.org/ . The mapping and…
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