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3rd SADC Groundwater Conference 2020 – A Virtual Success Groundwater is a catalyst for food security and economic and social development in the SADC region, said delegates at the 3rd SADC Groundwater Conference. Participants at one of the conference sessions In response to water and food insecurity experienced in the SADC region and the rest…
15th WWF Water Research Conference 2021 Program and Registration Danish Water Forum proudly invites you to join the 15th Annual Water Research Conference starting on 2nd February 2021. Covid19 has forced us to go completely online through TEAMS this year, but we are convinced we can provide you with the same enthusiasm as in the…
Featured image: Mozambique – Maputo Ferrovario Water Collection. Photo: John Hogg/World Bank This article was written by James Sauramba (Executive Director of SADC-GMI) and Anna Cestari (Senior Water Resources Management Specialist) and was also published on World Bank Blogs. Read the full article below, or read it on their website. Sustainable Groundwater Access Can Build…
Woman Engineer paves the way for groundwater access in Chongwe District, Zambia Eng. Beatrice Kanyamuna-Pole, Senior Hydrogeologist, in the Department of Water Resource Development, Zambia shares her journey as a woman contributing to the water sector. She speaks about her experiences as the only woman engineer in the field in the Groundwater Mapping and Wellfield…
Providing Access to Groundwater to the Chongwe Community: A Pilot Project in Zambia COVID-19 has set new rules for us—regular handwashing, wearing of masks, and frequent sanitization. All these have become the ‘new normal’ as we embrace physical distancing with the hope of preventing infections and protecting human health. During this pandemic, one thing is…
This article was written by James Sauramba, the Executive Director of SADC-GMI and was also published on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website. Read the full article below, or read it on their website. Tapping the Hidden Potential of Southern Africa’s Groundwater The answer to the region’s worsening water shortages may lie beneath its feet. Southern Africa…
Read the training information below, or download it here. FREE ONLINE COURSE The SADC Groundwater Management Institute invites you to apply for participation in an online training course on the preparation of proposals to access funding for groundwater related projects across the SADC region. This 5 week online training course will teach participants the fundamentals…
Read the full newsletter below, or download it here. Dear friends, partners and associates This week, in our ongoing series on confronting the barriers to climate finance in Africa, we discuss how to address the challenges of meeting complex funding criteria. Navigating this issue continues to remind us that building resilience – which is a…
Featured Image: New Solar Panels for the new project in Whunga As part of the Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC Member States project funded by the World Bank, SADC-GMI was mandated to use some of the funds to undertake a follow-up study of the seven pilot interventions in the Limpopo River Basin implemented under the…
Read or Download the official SADC-GMI Newsletter, The Well, for March 2020. Download March 2020 Newsletter Click here for all the previous editions of the SADC-GMI Newsletters, as well as additional papers and publications.