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Special issue on transboundary aquifers puts the worlds’ shared aquifers in focus

The Journal of Hydrology’s special issue on the International Shared Aquifer Resources Assessment and Management summarizes key findings from 15 years of transboundary aquifer (TBA) management across Africa, America, Asia and Europe. It highlights that management of transboundary aquifers in fragmented ways may affect sustainable development within and beyond a country’s borders, and that this requires an integrated…

New Report: Groundwater and SDGs

A new report by the United Nations University (UNU- INWEH) analyzes the interlinkages between groundwater and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. The SDGs of the 2030 Development Agenda do not, as a rule, account explicitly for groundwater, but it is clear that groundwater already plays and will continue to play a significant…

Call for Abstracts: SADC-GMI Groundwater Conference in Johannesburg

26-28 September 2018, Johannesburg View the Call for Abstracts flyer for the SADC-GMI 1st Annual Groundwater Conference The Southern African Development Community Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI), together with GRIPP, Global Water Partnership (GWP), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Department of Water and Sanitation, South Africa, UNESCO-IHP, International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre…

Transboundary Aquifer Management in the SADC Region – Kickoff of RAMOTSWA Project Phase II with Botswana and South Africa

Participants from Botswana and South Africa during a field excursion at the Pelang Stream

IWMI, IGRAC, and others hosted a 4–day inception workshop for Phase 2 of the RAMOTSWA Project to support transboundary aquifer management in the SADC Region