GRIPP Case Profile Series – Issue 2 Abstract The second issue of the GRIPP Case Profile Series documents the use of water quotas and pricing mechanisms in Northwest China to control and manage groundwater. Since the 1970s, this region has experienced intensive groundwater abstraction by smallholder farmers. In 2002, however,…
In the late 1970s, the Australian Government’s Aid Agency and Myanmar’s Rural Water Supply Division (RWSP) of the Agricultural Mechanisation Department (AMD) were conducting a Groundwater Resource Assessment for the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar. The study was extremely comprehensive—covering over 50,000km2 and serving about a quarter of Myanmar’s population.…
Dr. Kerstin Danert of the Skat Foundation, a GRIPP partner, was recently given the 2017 International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Distinguished Associate Award. The award was granted for her outstanding contribution to the understanding, development, management and protection of groundwater resources internationally. Profiled this month in the International Association of Hydrogeologists,…
Partners in the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) contributed to the 8th Water Research Horizon Conference (WRHC-8) which was held in Hamburg, Germany, on September 19-20, 2017. They also organized an Open Space Workshop (OSW) on challenges for international groundwater research for development. The WRHC is organized…
This piece is from an original coverage in October 2017, in German, in the magazine Africa Wirtschaft (Africa Economy). Reliable access to water is still a problem in Africa. The Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP), a group of 30 international partners, is committed to providing greater security of supply and sustainable management. The focus: groundwater. Africa’s economy is growing. Technical developments,…
A new study from Eawag Aquatic Research in Switzerland reveals that many groundwater wells in the Indus Basin are showing levels of arsenic concentration as high as 200-500 µg/L, though WHO considers 10 µg /L to be the safe limit. Groundwater supplies in Pakistan are essential to over 50 million…
This is to update you on the latest and upcoming events that GRIPP are involved in. GRIPP was represented through RWSN and AGW-Net at the International Conference on Geology, Mining, Mineral and Groundwater Resources of the Sub-Saharan Africa, which was held in Livingstone, Zambia, in July 2017. UPGro and RWSN…
Groundwater is rising on the agenda of the Africa continent, as a source of water to increase water security and resilience in the continent, while also representing a potentially vulnerable resource if not developed and managed effectively. This was reflected in the agenda of the stakeholder meeting convened by the…
By Dr Elena Lopez-Gunn (ICATALIST and part of the OECD Water Governance Initiative) Facts of the OECD Water Governance Group and Initiative The OECD Water Governance Initiative (WGI) was established as a follow-up to the agreements made related to the ‘Good Governance’ theme at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille,…
Groundwater: A Common Resource – A Shared Responsibility The MARVI – ‘Managing Aquifer Recharge and Sustaining Groundwater Use through Village-level Intervention’ project, funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and led by Western Sidney University, Australia, is working in Gujarat and Rajasthan, India since 2012 to strengthen…
