Events
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14 Mar 2018 – Cardiff, UK
Seminar: Groundwater Futures in Urban Africa
Seminar being hosted by Water Research institute at Cardiff University, and IAH's Urban Groundwater Network, to lead discussion and exploration of issues of access to groundwater supply in urban areas, in particular discussing resilience and distributional equity.
Across much of tropical Africa there is a rising proliferation of privately-commissioned boreholes for domestic water supply. Focusing on urban centres, this seminar will explore the implications of this for the groundwater resource, differential access to water resources, the quality of water supplies and the impact of this on different communities. The seminar will consider the implications of this for the resilience of communities and their vulnerability to natural or anthropogenic hazards.Organised by Water Research institute at Cardiff University and IAH's Urban Groundwater Network.