Magazine & News Articles

2020

2019

The Conversation/Nuria Ferrer Ramos (2019) Groundwater supplies on Kenya’s coast must be managed for people and industry, 22 October

IWA – The Source (2019) Policy priorities for the boom in urban private wells, 25 November 2019

GeoDrilling International/Sean Furey (2019) Floods with silver linings: Redefining how aquifers replenish in dryland Africa, 20 November 2019

The Conversation (2019) Groundwater reserves in Africa may be more resilient to climate change than first thought, 7 August, reproduced:

Nature (2019) The future of groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa, 7 August 2019

IPS/Isaiah Esipisu (2019) Extreme Floods, the Key to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa’s Drylands,

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The East African/Isaiah Esipisu (2019) Extreme floods bring good tidings to Tanzania city, 20-26 July 2019

Interpress News Agency/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) Avoiding the Mistakes of the Asian Green Revolution in Africa, 11 July 2019, re-produced in:

2018

PAMACC/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) Scientists interrogate why boreholes often fail soon after construction, 24 July 2018

The Daily Nation/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) Let’s tap underground water with caution, 19 July 2018

El País/Isaiah Esipisu, Robert Carmichael (2018) Kenia busca agua bajo sus pies, 19 July 2018

PAMACC/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) Young African geology researchers share experiences on an international platform, 12 July 2018

Reuters/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) Kenya takes a look into the unknown: Its underground water reserves, 2 July 2018:

- IAH (2018) Kenya takes a look into the unknown: Its underground water reserves, 6 July 2018
- Star Newspaper/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) Kenya takes a look into the unknown: Its underground water reserves , 2 July 2018
- The Standard/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) Kenya takes a look into the unknown: Its underground water reserves 2 July 2018
Africa Renewal/Ihuoma Atanga (2018) The Internet of everything water, May-July
The Christian Science Monitor/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) In sustainability search, Kenya studies the unknown depths of its aquifers, 2 July 2018
Taipei Times/Isaiah Esipisu (2018) In sustainability search, Kenya studies the unknown depths of its aquifers, 3 July 2018

2017

GeoDrilling International/Sean Furey (2017) Politics of Water, December 2017

Science, Vol 358, Issue 6366, 24 November (2017) Valuing water for sustainable development, pp. 1003-1005 DOI: 10.1126/science.aao4942, Dustin E. Garrick, Jim W. Hall, Andrew Dobson, Richard Damania, R. Quentin Grafton, Robert Hope, Cameron Hepburn, Rosalind Bark, Frederick Boltz, Lucia De Stefano, Erin O’Donnell, Nathanial Matthews, Alex Money

ITV Tanzania television news (2017) Segment on GroFutures work (in Swahili), September 2017

GeoDrilling International/Sean Furey (2017) Opportunities rising, cities sinking, July/August 2017

GeoDrilling International/Sean Furey (2017) Digging deep to survive drought, May 2017

GeoDrilling International (2017) Fossil groundwater vulnerable to modern contamination, May 2017

BBC (2017) ‘Fossil’ groundwater’s modern secret, 26 April 2017

Science News (2017) ‘Fossil’ groundwater is not immune to modern-day pollution, 25 April 2017

Seeker (2017) Humans Are Threatening the World’s Supply of ‘Fossil’ Groundwater, 25 April 2017

Water Canada (2017) New Research Suggests Water Scarcity Measurement Flawed, 22 March 2017

Climate Reporters (2017) New JMP report opens new vistas on safe water, 22 March 2017

ITV News (2017) Working towards preventing famine in the future, 16 March 2017

Environmental Technology (2017) Can Water Pumps’ “Good Vibrations” Help Determine Groundwater Levels?, 15 March 2017

GeoDrilling International/Kerstin Danert (2017) Africa’s ultimate resource, March 2017, p6-7

World Pumps (2017) ‘Smart’ hand pumps help monitor Africa’s groundwater resources, 1 March 2017

The Economist (2017) Pay as you drink – An innovative cure for broken water pumps in Africa: New technology uses big data to keep the taps flowing, 28 February

phys.org (2017) ‘Smart handpumps’ predict depths of groundwater in Africa, 28 February,

BBC (2017) ‘Good vibration’ hand pumps boost Africa’s water security, 24 February 2017

Engineering for Change/Stephanie Potts (2017) Charitable Foundations Have a Unique Opportunity to Change the WASH Sector. 6 February 2017

NERC Planet Earth stories (2017) On the road to resilience in Ethiopia, 12 January 2017, re-posted by the Global Resilience Partnership.

2016

Geoblogy/Helen Bonsor (2016) UPGro: Hidden Crisis – the story so far…by Helen Bonsor, 21 December 2016

International Mining (2016) Making African groundwater visible, 5 December 2016

Groundwater Canada (2016) UPGro creates Africa ground water atlas, 28 September 2016

Usemi Wetu – Base Titanium quarterly newsletter (2016) Groundwater Risk Management, Issue 14, July – September 2016

Lusaka Times (2016) Ethiopia: Data Farming – How Ethiopian Farmers Harvest Data to Help Their Crops 25 August 2016

Lusaka Times (2016) Africa Groundwater Atlas: “X” marks the spot, but where’s the map?, 24 August 2016 (re-produced by the Zimbabwe Star)

WatSan Perspective (2016) Africa Groundwater Atlas: “X” Marks the Spot, But Where’s The Map? 24 August 2016

WatSan Perspective (2016) Ethiopia: Data Farming – How Ethiopian Farmers Harvest Data to Help Their Crops 24 August 2016

The Guardian/Oliver Balch (2016) Africa droughts prompt calls to start pumping untapped groundwater, 18 August 2016 (re-produced by others: famousnewsupdate.com)

GeoDrilling International/Sean Furey (2016) Refilling the wells: Sean Furey discusses cutting-edge research that is unlocking the potential of tropical aquifers, May 2016 [Page 1: Page 2]

Environmental Research Web/Liz Kalaugher (2016) Intense rain recharges tropical aquifers, 3 May 2016

The Guardian/Katherine Purvis (2016) How do you solve a problem like a broken water pump? 22 March 2016

Dutch Water Sector (2016) IGRAC embarks on study to map groundwater potential for more irrigation in Tanzania, 30 March 2016

WatSan Perspective (2016) 2016 Water Day: African Aquifers Can Protect Against Climate Change, 22 March 2016

Daily Nation/Nic Cheeseman & Johanna Koehler (2016) To attain water security, draw on the 3 streams of finance, groundwork, climate, 6 February 2016

IGRAC (2016) Using groundwater to reduce poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Prof. Alan MacDonald (BGS/ Hidden Crisis) gives his opinion on new (non- UPGro) groundwater research: “Shallow groundwater poses pollution problem for Africa” SciDev