Tag: UNICEF

  • Groundwater mapping “fundamental” to climate resilient water supplies in Ethiopia

    by Dr John Butterworth, IRC WASH, re-posted with permission Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more. The small town of Afdera in the north of Afar region,…

  • UNICEF to commission remote sensing prospection of groundwater in Ethiopia

    UNICEF Ethiopia plans in 2018 to map the groundwater potential of 41 woredas (administrative divisions) within EU’s Resilience Building programme (RESET II). The methodology used in 2016/17 can be found in the links below: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/hydrogeological-study-drought-affected-areas-afar-somali-oromia-and-snnp-regions-ethiopia-part-1 http://washdev.iwaponline.com/content/early/2016/07/08/washdev.2016.021 The 2018 methodology will have the addition of a socio-economic component with rangeland inputs from PRIMEhttps://prime-ethiopia.org/ .  The mapping and…

  • Stop the Rot – helps us stop the scandal of pump corrosion

    Stop the Rot – helps us stop the scandal of pump corrosion

    This week RWSN/UPGro hosted a webinar on: Overcoming the Rural Water Supply Scandal of Handpump Corrosion (RWSN) – Recording (English) Dépasser le scandale de la corrosion des pompes manuelles dans l’approvisionnement rural en eau (RWSN) – Recording (French) The key points are: handpump corrosion has been known about for 30 years, it is avoidable yet…

  • Overcoming the Rural Water Supply Scandal of Handpump Corrosion

    Handpump corrosion has been known about for over 30 years, the fact that it is a common problem in over 25 countries is a scandal and reflects badly on donors, implementers and governments. In this webinar, Bony Etti and Jacinta Nekesa from WaterAid Uganda describe their shocking findings from investigating boreholes and pumps (as part…