Shallow Wells – UPGro – African Groundwater 2020

Participants of the Arena in Arusha, Tanzania, identified a multitude of interconnected problems

Posted by RWSN Secretariaton 24/05/201823/05/2018in TGroUP: Experimenting with practical transition groundwater management strategies for the urban poor in Sub Saharan Africa

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…

Promising new groundwater pollution sensor – New UPGro paper published

Posted by RWSN Secretariaton 05/05/201705/05/2017in Announcement, IN-GROUND: Inexpensive monitoring of Groundwater pollution in Urban African Districts, New publication

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…

A little story of an abandoned – but busy- borehole

Posted by RWSN Secretariaton 20/01/2016in TGroUP: Experimenting with practical transition groundwater management strategies for the urban poor in Sub Saharan Africa

By Carlos Enrique Aponte Rivero and Michelle Kooy @ http://t-group.science Osunyai is one of the newest Wards of Arusha city. The Ward is next to our project areas of Unga Ltd and Sombetini and shares many of the same characteristics in…