The links between groundwater access and poverty are generally indirect, complex and context specific.
Tag: Poverty
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…
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Different perspectives on ways to make a living from groundwater, in Tanzania and Ethiopia
Lessons from the GroFutures Multi-stakeholder Workshops in the Great Ruaha Basin, Tanzania, and Upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia by John Thompson, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Gebrehaweria, Gebregziabher, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Richard Taylor, Devotha Kilave, Andrew Tarimo and Japhet Kashaigili Identifying and…
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The Top 4 Welfare Priorities for Kwale County, Kenya
My name is Jacob Katuva and I’m a researcher with Oxford University. I largely work in the water and poverty area. My research has been in Kenya – Kwale County specifically – where I’ve been looking at the links between…
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Participants of the Arena in Arusha, Tanzania, identified a multitude of interconnected problems
by Jan Willem Foppen, re-posted from T-GroUP Arusha is one of the faster-growing cities in Tanzania. The urbanization process is causing multiple interconnected problems. The first arena meeting organized as part of the T-Group Arusha Transition Management process was held…
New UPGro studies explore links between groundwater and poverty in rural and urban Africa
Thanks to additional support from NERC at the beginning of 2017, some of the world's leading experts on groundwater and poverty were brought together to test the assumptions that we make about how much we know and understand about the…
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UPGro - African Groundwater 2020 