News & Projects

08-06-2022 Last week, our colleague Victor Langenberg was in wonderful and exciting Morocco for water and salinity assessments, stakeholder meetings and mapping of water-agri opportunities for next steps, together with Arjen de Vos of The Salt Doctors doctors (Texel).

We traveled to the magnificent…

08-06-2022 In a water scarce country as Jordan, climate change and overexploitation of groundwater are big challenges. When the water-related issues are this big and diverse, it is not easy to find a long-term solution for each issue. Flash floods and at the same time droughts are just a few examples of these…

31-01-2022 R-WASH will provide more sustainable, conflict-sensitive, climate-resilient and integrated water supply and sanitation services for refugees, IDPs and host communities in East Africa.
 
A strong consortium formed by CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter GmbH (Braunschweig – DE), Acacia…

31-01-2022 We are proud that NWO has approved our research proposal on ’Climate-proof agriculture in the salinating coastal zone of the Netherlands: innovative water management, adaptive agriculture and promising transition paths (AGRICOAST)’. The consortium of Delft University of Technology, Wageningen…

15-12-2021 As part of the Sustainable Water Fund project “Ziway-Shalla: Basin in Balance” (ZSBiB) at Lake Ziway in Ethiopia, Acacia Water and its partners work among other things on soil and water conservation (SWC) activities to combat soil erosion and subsequent sediment run-off at degraded upland areas of…

08-12-2021 What do we see here, a crazy art project or the Dutch Nazca lines?
No, it is not a art project, but a test field with ditch infiltration to keep archeology in the subsoil wet. The shape of the ditches is not motivated by human creativity, but by what can be found in the subsoil. Near the old…

26-11-2021 Try the Water Harvesting Explorer! A decision support tool to help identify potential for small scale WH interventions in the landscape of the Western Sahel: https://sahel.acaciadata.com/, available in English and French!
The webtool aims to provide an overview of the sustainable small-scale…

28-10-2021 Declining groundwater levels ranging between 3-7 metres per year in critical basins, an estimated annual water shortage of 1.4 billion cubic metres and an annual per capita water availability of only 85 cubic metres. These are some of the distressing findings of our study on water availability in…

25-10-2021 Acacia Water is in the field for geological and hydrogeological mapping in Angola! Together with Consulaqua (Germany) and SEGEO (Angolan) partners we are surveying the opportunities for sustainable groundwater resources abstraction for the municipality of Lubango. our colleagues Daniela Benedicto…

05-10-2021 We are very proud to announce our company registration in Ethiopia! After more than 10 years of active engagement in specifically groundwater and IWRM related projects in Ethiopia and neighbouring countries, it is time to take a next step.
Water resources are scarce in the Horn of Africa region,…

25-08-2021 UNICEF, Acacia Water and Aquacon have a long standing relationship on mapping of deep ground water resources in Ethiopia. The work focuses on improving the success rate of borehole drilling.
 
Following the mapping of groundwater in Ethiopia, Groundwater Mapping 4 Climate Resilient…

09-08-2021 In the past 2 weeks colleagues of Acacia Water installed hydrological & telemetric monitoring sensors at water sources outlets (river, groundwater & springs) in Bedele and Harar, Ethiopia to measure the impact of upstream reforestation (tree planting) and Soil & Water Conservation (SWC)…

27-07-2021 Two independent reviews of the recently concluded, five-year Millennium Water Alliance program in Kenya have been released, confirming many achievements and offering recommendations for improvements in the future. Both studies found significant innovations and on the ground achievements throughout…

19-03-2021 A feasibility and site investigation study into artificial aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) applications in the Sultanate of Oman started the 1st of March as a joint venture of AZD Engineering consultancy, Consulaqua and Acacia Water.
 
AZD Engineering consultancy, Consulaqua Hamburg…

16-03-2021 The Maghreb countries are facing increasing water scarcity amplified by inefficient water use and overexploitation of water resources. There is evidence that surface water is diminishing and that ground water levels are lowering rapidly. The countries are affected by climate change as rainfall is…