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Groundwater still underutilised in Southern Africa.
June 12, 2009: IPS News publishes an article by Miriam Mannak: Despite the significant role groundwater could play in alleviating poverty, improving food security and contributing to overall development in Southern Africa, a lack of skills, finances and awareness of the resource means only a small percentage of the region's supplies are tapped into.
The article mentions a score of internationally operating hydrogeologists, among which:
Karen Villholth, a groundwater expert at the Danish department of Hydrology; Philip Beetlestone, project manager at the SADC's Groundwater and Drought Management Project; Ebenhard Braune, UNESCO's Chair in Geohydrology at the University of the Western Cape; Imasiku Nyambe, coordinator of the Integrated Water Resource Management Center at the University of Zambia.
Read the whole article at IPS News