How this generation uses and protects groundwater will be a decisive factor in ensuring the resilience of billions of people and our children. Water and food security cannot be achieved without groundwater, especially since it is a source of drinking water for every third person and a source of water…
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a partner in the Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP) and one of the largest non-profit conservation organizations in the world operating in 72 countries, has developed a new web-based app that provides groundwater managers in California, USA, with easy access to satellite data…
The National Groundwater Association (NGWA), a GRIPP partner, has provided a recent review of the book ‘Advances in Groundwater Governance’ in their Wiley journal Groundwater. Some excerpts from the review by Robert E. Mace and Todd H. Votteler, in: Groundwater, Vol 57, No. 2, March-April 2019: “Through 28 chapters, in…
The International Water Association (IWA) has for many years been bringing together diverse water professionals to share knowledge and experience about pressing water challenges and innovative solutions. One of the key platforms that IWA has created are its “specialist groups,” where members can gain professional and leadership opportunities. The IWA…
By Viviana Re, IAH-BGID The Burdon Groundwater Network for International Development of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH-BGID) is launching a call for contributions to a new book “Groundwater, Resilient Livelihoods and Equitable Growth,” to be published in the IAH Book Series. With this book, we aim to provide a…
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,…
GRIPP Case Profile Series – Issue 1 Abstract The Moroccan government has used aquifer contracts as a management tool to control groundwater depletion. The first aquifer contract was signed in 2006 for the Souss region as a technical and financial non-binding contract between stakeholders and the government. The contract contemplated…
GRIPP in collaboration with AWG-Net, BGR, Cap-Net, IWMI, and UNESCO-IHP is giving a one-day training program for River Basin Organizations and other institutions interested in groundwater management on 20 July, 2016, during the Africa Water Week, 18-22 July in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A comprehensive training manual has been produced…
