Category: Other new African Groundwater Research

  • 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…

  • Groundwater – the earth’s renewable wealth
    Groundwater – the earth’s renewable wealth

    By Sean Furey, Skat Foundation/RWSN/UPGro Where does wealth come from? At its most basic, it is the difference between how much you invest in a product or service and how much you get from selling it. If the difference is positive you get wealth, if it is negative then you get trouble. For a country…

  • World Bank: Hidden and Forgotten: Managing Groundwater in Southern Africa

    from The World Bank STORY HIGHLIGHTS People in southern Africa are largely dependent on groundwater shared between countries and communities for health and well-being, food production, and economic growth. As climate variability alters the amount of surface water that is available, people in the region are increasingly turning to groundwater, which is already challenged by…

  • New El Niño research grant awarded to UPGro investigators

    A research team, led by Prof. Alan MacDonald of BGS, has been awarded research funding by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for a study entitled “Monitoring the impact of the 2015/16 El Nino on rural water insecurity in Ethiopia: learning lessons for climate resilience“ El Niño is a prolonged warming of sea surface…

  • Africa: #AWW6 – Going to Groundwater to Transform African Agriculture

    re-posted from: http://allafrica.com/stories/201607200647.html OPINION By Callist Tindimugaya Callist Tindimugaya argues that the water beneath Africans’ feet could transform the continent’s agricultural production, but only if it is managed wisely

  • New Arsenic & Fluoride mapping tool
    New Arsenic & Fluoride mapping tool

    The Eawag “Groundwater Assessment Platform”, funded by SDC, is now live: http://www.gapmaps.org/ “Over 300 million people worldwide use groundwater contaminated with arsenic or fluoride as a source of drinking water. The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) has developed a method whereby the risk of contamination in a given area can be…

  • Why it’s time to elevate groundwater – The World Bank

    On the World Bank’s Water Blog, Jacob Burke and Marcus Wijnen make the case for better groundwater governance: Groundwater stored in the earth’s crust underpins all our lives – the ultimate source of freshwater for billions has become victim of over-extraction and the ultimate sink for pollutants. For too long, not enough has been done…

  • Threats to groundwater supplies from contamination in Sierra Leone, with special reference to Ebola care facilities
    Threats to groundwater supplies from contamination in Sierra Leone, with special reference to Ebola care facilities

    Although not an UPGro study, this is a relevant new paper by Lapworth, D.J.; Carter, R .C.; Pedley, S.; MacDonald, A.M.. 2015 Threats to groundwater supplies from contamination in Sierra Leone, with special reference to Ebola care facilities. Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 87pp. (OR/15/009) Abstract: The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa…