News & Projects

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…

21-12-2020 Recently a consortium led by Aidenvironment, Acacia Water, MetaMeta & IHE Delft won a World Bank contract for a study on operationalizing small-scale water storage initiatives with the aim of providing water security in Western Sahel. The one-year study will deliver implementation guidelines for…

27-11-2020 This is just great! Acacia Water is nominated for the ‘Doing Business in Africa’ Award by the Netherlands-African Business Council.
You might have a hard time seeing our specialists at work in Africa because we work in the background helping businesses, governments, civil society and institutes…

15-10-2020 On October 6th, the project team of Groundwater Mapping 4 Climate Resilient WASH in arid and semi-arid areas of Ethiopia (GW4E) held the closure activities of the project with two online sessions: ‘Use and applications of the online webtool and the Dissemination Workshop of the EU RESET funded…

27-07-2020 When cyclone Amphan made landfall in Bangladesh and India on May 20, 2020 it left a trail of destruction. In Bangladesh the storm affected around 10 million people and destroyed ca. 55,000 houses. Even though improved forecasting and early evacuation of 2.2 million people prevented worse the death…

02-07-2020 The photo of June 2020 shows crop damage due to salinization above the tile drainage on an agricultural field in Texel, one of the islands of the Netherlands. Last week there was considerable salinization damage due to rising salt into the root zone above the tile drainage. Earlier within…