News & Projects

05-08-2019 The deeper groundwater in the Dutch province of Zeeland and other coastal provinces of the Netherlands is salt, and salinization of the scarce sweet (ground) water occurs when too much groundwater is extracted for irrigation during dry periods.
 
Over the next 2 years, The project Delta…

02-08-2019 In large parts of Bangladesh’s rural coastal region the population has limited access to safe drinking water due to salinity in both shallow and deep groundwater. During the dry season, many of the delta’s rivers and canals turn saline. The abundant monsoon rains provide large amounts of freshwater…

18-06-2019 This month three or our colleagues visited the Land Use and Water Quality conference in Aarhus, Denmark, where the effects of agriculture and land use on the environment were central. This conference is held once every two years. This time there were participants from 29 countries present from the…

18-06-2019 Like many other football clubs with a natural grass pitch, soccer association Arnemuiden had problems with the grass last summer during the drought. As part of the Freshwater Testing project (Proeftuin Zoet Water), a trial will start with water storage and combined drip irrigation under the natural…

07-06-2019 In the week of 20th to 24th May 2019 the International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR) took place in Madrid, Spain. Over 300 participants from 50 countries were present.The ISMAR this year included short courses and field trips to MAR sites around Madrid to showcase the success of MAR…

26-04-2019 Wetlands play an essential role in supporting food security, protecting our water resources and adapting to climate change. Vegetation roots protect waterway banks from erosion and slow the progress of floodwaters. Water quality improvement is a key function, with wetland vegetation protecting…

26-04-2019 The Government of Burkina Faso is developing integrated water resource management (IWRM) plans for micro-scale level catchments. To assist their staff with the development and implementation of such plans, The Directorat Regional de l’Eau et de Assainissement (DREA-Nord) applied for a course. Thanks…

23-04-2019 A4Labs is an action research on Arid African Alluvial Aquifers. Farmers and project partners will co-develop, test, share and compare methodologies with farmers and partners to create a reliable and sustainable source of water for agriculture in three semi-arid to arid regions of Sub-Sahara Africa,…

23-04-2019 Geophysics and groundwater exploration remains a very specialized field of work. For an outsider it is often hard to comprehend which methods are being used and how indications and characterization of underground water are being established. Between February 2017 and November 2018 the project…

05-04-2019 Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) administers many projects in the international domain (aiddata.rvo.nl). Many of these projects rely on groundwater sources, especially the agriculture projects. RVO wants to stimulate discussions on incorporating groundwater assessments in the business…

22-02-2019 Burkina Faso experiences the impacts of climate change and population growth. This has consequences for water management at the micro-basin scale, including setting up monitoring networks and taking measures to increase availability of water, especially in the dry season. In many cases small…

21-02-2019 Last month we had our first Deltadrip meeting! Deltadrip is a project that investigates the extent to which water and nutrient savings can be achieved through the innovative use of drip irrigation and fertigation, as an alternative to traditional irrigation techniques, like water reels, and…

28-11-2018 Just a good news update from Chokwe, Mozambique! There is plenty of renewable water in the sandy river bed aquifer, affordable wells can be installed, financing instruments are available to support our ideas, and the farmers are now testing the Irrigation Package for Sand Rivers (IPSAR)!
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13-07-2018 Balancing water demand and supply has been more important then ever in Kenya last year. Heavy rainfall, floods and droughts followed rapidly. With good management, it can be balanced. From the Kenya Rapid project, Acacia Water contributes to the practical implementation of these complex management…

09-07-2018 The feasibility study on the irrigation package for sand rivers in Mozambique is running! Arid lands are often crisscrossed by sand rivers, which flow only during periods of rainfall, but have a bed that is filled with several meters of (coarse) sand. This bed forms a so-called aquifer, a shallow…