“Groundwater for sustainable development: Where are we?” The Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) has entered into a collaboration with the International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM), a centre of excellence in capacity development in water, and the National Centre for Groundwater Research and…
Modern managed aquifer recharge (MAR) began in the middle of the last century, inspired by traditional practices that societies developed to combat water scarcity. Nowadays, MAR is practiced in more than 60 countries, fulfilling a variety of water and environment management goals across a diverse range of settings. To help…
The International Centre for Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM), the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP), and the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) in Australia are pleased to announce the new webinar series on “Groundwater for Sustainable Development.” Groundwater, as the largest store of unfrozen…
Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) – Special session at World Water Week 2018 The need to ensure water security and resilience for vulnerable communities (United Nations Sustainable Development Goal – SDG 6) – what Amina Mohammed (Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations) described as a “docking station” for…
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde, Scotland (both partners of the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice [GRIPP]), the Department of Water Resources, Malawi, and the National Directorate of Water Resources Management, Mozambique, have embarked on the Conjunctive transboundary water resources management…
What is a sand dam and why has the government of a Kenyan town budgeted for 2000 of them to be constructed? Find out about this — and 17 other examples of creative solutions from around the world provided by GRIPP and partners that harness groundwater-based natural infrastructure — on…
The Observatorio del Agua of the Botin Foundation organised a seminar entitled Seminario sobre los Desafíos de la Gestión y Gobernanza de las Aguas Subterráneas y Presentación del Libro “Advances in Groundwater Governance” (Seminar on the Challenges of Groundwater Management and Governance, and Presentation of the book “Advances in Groundwater…
A new special journal issue on the theme of MAR in Integrated Water Management has been published in the Springer journal: Sustainable Water Resources Management. The special issue is the second and final to emerge from the 9th International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR9) held in Mexico City in…
UN-Water is presently seeking feedback on their SDG 6 Synthesis Report, which will help inform the assessment by the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) of the progress of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on Clean Water and Sanitation. The assessment of SDG 6 is part…
A new policy brief titled Sustainable Groundwater Development for Improved Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa was published by the International Water Resources Association (IWRA). Based on work carried out by IWMI and partners through the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and WLE, the brief describes the potential and constraints of groundwater irrigation Sub-Saharan…
