At the end of the term of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Commission on Transboundary Aquifers (IAH-TBA), a special meeting on the ‘Future of Transboundary Aquifers: Research, Management, and Policy Directions’ was convened on September 22, 2019, in Malaga, Spain, as a pre-conference event to the 46th IAH Congress…
During World Water Week 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, experts from the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), Skat Foundation, the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN), Water Mission and the Institut Géographique du Burundi (IGEBU) discussed how to safely…
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…
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…
GRIPP addresses SDGs, transboundary aquifers and MAR at the IAH Congress in Montpellier.
