This blog presents the SafePani model, a new institutional framework for rural water service delivery in Bangladesh.
Climate resilience
Improving urban water supply security through the integrated use of surface and groundwater resources
In this blog, Dr Birhanu argues the best water supply management option to improve urban water security, and protect groundwater resources, is the integrated use of surface and groundwater resources.
Monitoring socio-climatic interactions to improve rural water security in Africa
Rainfall variability and socioeconomic shocks pose a revenue risk to rural water services across Africa. A new paper by Andrew Armstrong et al. explores how water usage data combined with climate information can be used to generate warning signals of revenue risk and to improve policy response.
Extreme rainfall and management of the Turkwel Gorge Dam in Kenya
Recent news stories predict that the Turkwel Gorge Dam in northwest Kenya will overflow in November 2020. The potential flooding could affect over 300,000 people in an area accustomed to droughts. Understanding rainfall variability can provide lessons for managing dams in drylands to improve water security for energy, agriculture, environmental and human needs.
New funding to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia
New funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) will support REACH to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia.
Climate resilience and water security: for whom, by whom and at what scale?
In February REACH hosted a workshop on water security and climate resilience in collaboration with Oxfam. In this blog, the authors report on the workshop and discuss where academics and practitioners working on water security can truly add value.
How Sustainable Land Management can improve water security in the Ethiopian Highlands
Following a trip to Aba Gerima, Ethiopia Alice Chautard sheds light on latest REACH research exploring the links between water security and poverty in the Ethiopian Highlands.
ECR Feature | Groundwater is a vital invisible resource – to use it, we need to better understand it and make it visible
Early Career Researcher Florence Tanui, Ph.D. Fellow in Geology at the University of Nairobi, shares key insights from the groundwater research she has been leading in Lodwar, Kenya, as part of REACH.
How can we increase capacity for water-related climate adaptation? Lessons and opportunities from Ethiopian river basins
Capacity building within and across institutions is a critical step to accelerating water-related climate adaptation. Dr Ellen Dyer shares insights from a session themed around this topic, hosted by REACH at the African Climate Risk Conference on 7 October.
What we know, don’t know and need to know about future East African Climate | 4 September cross-project meeting
On 4 September, REACH hosted a collaborative meeting on East-African climate, in collaboration with AfricanSWIFT, the IMPALA and HyCristal FCFA projects. Here’s a summary from the meetings and key messages from ECRs.
