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Sex for Water Many women in urban informal settlements in Kenya are often forced to barter sex for water. This … Continued

Water diplomacy Water management *is* conflict management. Regardless of the scale, ensuring that the needs of the people and ecosystems … Continued

Water’s Date of Death The 12.000 years old town Hasankeyf and the Tigris Valley is threatened by a Hydroelectric … Continued

The total amount of groundwater abstraction by a country positively correlates with the size of that country. This quite … Continued

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This page provides an overview of groundwater research that is currently carried out. Please help us enrich this page by … Continued

‘Politics’ is widely considered a dirty word. Dictionaries provide a wide range of definitions, from the benign “… the aggregate … Continued

Stress level of aquifers that are important for growing food. Warmer colours are applied to more stressed areas, with … Continued

Groundwater is less susceptible to bacterial pollution than surface water, as the soils and rocks it flows through screens out … Continued

Most of the layers of ground in which water is stored (aquifers) are naturally recharged, for example through rain and … Continued

This text is contributed by Nienke Ansems from IGRAC Groundwater is the most abundant source of freshwater on earth, counting … Continued