Tag: ICRAF

  • Merti aquifer: Kenya’s largest water source faced with resistance

    By Peter Mutai NAIROBI (Xinhua) —Wajir town in Northern Kenya has never had a regular water supply system forcing majority of the residents to use water drawn directly from shallow wells that exposes them to many potentially harmful elements.

  • Do you trust your gut instinct?

    This blog post, for the ARIGA Catalyst Project, was originally published as part of the ‘Talking Science’ and Water, Land and Ecosystems Blog .  Making better development decisions with decision analysis tools Making decisions is difficult. Most of us spend a lot of time procrastinating about decisions in our everyday lives, struggling to weigh pros…

  • New Catalyst Project website: ARIGA

    ARIGA is the Assessing Risk of Investment in Groundwater Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa project being led by the World Forestry Centre in Kenya/ICRAF: This project aims to find a more holistic way of assessing risks around the development of groundwater resources. The Wajir pipeline project was taken as a case study to measure the value…