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The Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM) in Southern Africa launches its first-ever Groundwater Committee

Participants at inaugural meeting for the LIMCOM Groundwater Committee (Photo credit: SADC-GMI)

The Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM), which coordinates shared international water issues among its four riparian states – Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe – recently formalized a cooperation mechanism focusing on groundwater resources and management. The mechanism will facilitate and promote the conjunctive management of surface water and groundwater resources…

Groundwater featured at World Water Day 2019: Video on protecting our last lifeline

The Early Carrier Hydrogeologists’ Network under the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), which is one of our GRIPP partners, has proudly developed a thought-provoking video alerting to the global issues of water scarcity – and specifically calling all to the need for supporting groundwater protection and proper exploitation in order…

Call for Abstracts: 2nd SADC Groundwater Conference, 04-06 Sep 2019 in Johannesburg

The Southern African Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI) is announcing the call for abstracts for its 2nd Annual Groundwater Conference, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 04-06 Sep, 2019 under the theme ‘Groundwater Contribution to SDGs in the SADC Region’. GRIPP is supporting SADC-GMI in the organization…

New report on arsenic removal technology cost and efficiency

GRIPP partner United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) published a new report entitled ‘Cost and Efficiency of Arsenic Removal from Groundwater: A Review’, by Y. Shan, P. Mehta, D. Perera and Y.Varela that compares the cost and effectiveness of technologies that remove arsenic from groundwater.…

Groundwater Desk Officer Position open with AMCOW

As communicated in the Final Communique of the 7thAfrica Water Week in Libreville, Gabon, on the 2nd Day of November 2018, the African Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW) resolved to set up an African groundwater knowledge sharing and policy coordination desk at its Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria for the promotion of increased…

Call for expression of interest in contributing cases to an upcoming UNESCO report on Managed Aquifer Recharge

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has entered into collaboration with other partners of the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP), including the Center for Advanced Water Research (CAWR), International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) and the International Water Management…

Launch of the report: Incorporating environmental flows into “water stress” indicator 6.4.2 – Guidelines for a minimum standard method for global reporting

As the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation process is being rolled out, monitoring and reporting on the status and progress are essential. As custodian on behalf of UN-Water, of the SDG indicator 6.4.2 on water stress, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with…

Water Future Conference, Bengaluru, India, 24- 27 Sep 2019

Towards a Sustainable Water Future GRIPP, together with GRIPP partners IWMI, IAH, UNECO-IHP and the Working Group on Groundwater under the Sustainable Water Future Programme (Water Future) of Future Earth as well as Indian collaborating partners, is organizing sessions and supporting activities related to groundwater at the Water Future Conference in Bengaluru, India, 24-27…

Book on ‘Advances in Groundwater Governance’ now open source

This book is especially unique in that it not only explains a wide range of issues associated with groundwater governance, but it also provides water industry professionals, decision-makers and local stakeholders with a suite of solutions for a heuristic approach to managing this extremely important resource. Use this flyer for…

GRIPP: 2018 in Review

GRIPP partners accomplished a lot this year, and we wanted to take a minute to highlight a few of these successes. We hope you’ll enjoy GRIPP’s 2018 in Review. We thank you for your support and contributions this past year and look forward to working with you in 2019!