Tag: Monitoring
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Sharing experiences of data flows in water and sanitation – some reflections from AGUASAN Workshop 2018
by Sean Furey, Skat Foundation / UPGro Knowledge Broker Team AGUASAN Workshop: “Leveraging the data revolution Informed decision-making for better water and sanitation management” June 25th to 29th 2018, Spiez, Switzerland AGUASAN is the Swiss Community of Practice for water and sanitation that has been running since 1984 and comprises regular meetings through the year…
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:: New UPGro Paper :: Tryptophan-like fluorescence as a measure of microbial contamination
A new paper has been published from the UPGro Gro for GooD project, working in Kenya, which develops the work done under the UPGro Catalyst Project on mapping groundwater quality, which developed an exciting new low-cost, real-time method of measuring microbial contamination of groundwater. Context: Globally, 25% of people lack access to water that is…
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Manage what you measure: Better groundwater monitoring comes to West Africa
re-posted from BRAVE by David MacDonald, British Geological Survey A key component of water resource management is the sound scientific understanding of water flows and storage. Where water supplies are sourced through wells and boreholes in the underlying rocks, we need to understand the volumes of water stored there and how natural climate variability and…
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Promising new groundwater pollution sensor – New UPGro paper published
Shallow groundwater wells, are the main source of drinking water in many rural and peri-urban communities. The quantity and variety of shallow wells located in such communities make them more readily accessible than private or government operated deep boreholes, but shallow wells are more susceptible to faecal contamination, which is often due to leaching pit…
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Data farming – how Ethiopian farmers harvest data to help their crops
What’s the weather doing? It’s a question that obsesses many but for many Ethiopians it is question that makes the difference between plenty and destitution. Ethiopia is a rich and diverse country that is home to around 100 million people, 88 different languages and imbued with long, diverse history. Its highlands are seasonally wet and…
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UPGro Catalyst Researcher recognised as a leading ‘Innovator under 35’ by MIT Technology Review
Dr Sharon Velasquez Orta (Newcastle University) has been recognised by the MIT Technology Review as one the leading “Innovators under 35” for 2015 for her work on developing a low-cost biosensor of measuring groundwater quality. In the UPGro Catalyst project (INGROUND), she and colleagues from Newcastle University and Ardhi University have been developing the sensor…
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Will the wells run dry? An urgent need for better groundwater monitoring in Zimbabwe and Malawi identified.
Daina Mudimbu, from the University of Zimbabwe, presented the work in “Resource limitations to sustainability of groundwater well-points in basement complex regions of SSA” Catalyst Study. Download Presentation (PDF)
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