With nearly 30 million wells having sprung up during the last half century, India is a global hotspot of groundwater use. The book Clean and Sustainable Ground Water in India, edited by Dipankar Saha, Sanjay Marwaha, and Arunangshu Mukherjee and published by Springer, offers a window to the prevailing challenges…
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…
A three-year USAID-funded project on ‘Groundwater Governance in the Arab Region: Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges’ implemented by IWMI and national partners across the Middle East-Northern Africa region investigated just that. Highlighted in a synthesis piece on the WLE Thrive Blog are five wicked problems that prevent the MENA…
7th GRIPP Partners Meeting will be held at the 44th IAH Congress in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 28th September 2017. Register to join today!
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
The International Water Management Institute, in collaboration with partners from Lao PDR, Thailand and Japan have been working to assess the groundwater resources; identify existing groundwater use in agriculture; develop and test new community-managed groundwater irrigation schemes; and establish the potential for expanded use of groundwater. This, in turn, serves…
GRIPP enthusiastically welcomes the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany, British Geological Survey (BGS), UK, Global Environmental Facility (GEF), World Bank, and UNESCO-IHP as new collaborating partners. We are excited to announce two new GRIPP Associate Partners, the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the German Federal Institute…
