News & Projects

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…

19-05-2020  
Proudly we can update our network on our lock-down-proof-collaboration with Ethekwini Water and Sanitation and RHDHV. The week prior to the lock-down in South Africa our pre-feasibility study for the stormwater harvesting and water re-use public-private partnership in eThekwini…

01-05-2020 Users can perform more comprehensive evaluations with the redesigned online Water Footprint Assessment Tool from the Water Footprint Network. This free interactive tool enables development of exact insights and solutions for efficient water management, through use of the latest global…

16-03-2020 In the Central Rift Valley in Ethiopia, the water level in lake Ziway and in the downstream saline Lake Abijata has declined over the past years. This has been due to increased water extraction for irrigation from Lake Ziway and expansion of agriculture in the entire Ziway-Shalla Basin, causing a…

04-02-2020 The drinking water company Oasen, The Netherlands, manages various geohydrological models to be able to model the groundwater flow and groundwater level changes around their extraction sites. The models are used for permit applications and changes, microbiological safety analyzes, residence time…

04-02-2020 Acacia Water in collaboration with a local team of experts has been tasked by UNICEF Ethiopia /EU RESET II program to conduct a groundwater study to make groundwater suitability maps and to identify drilling target sites for 16 boreholes in 5 regions of the RESET II program. By conducting this…

03-02-2020 The Ziway-Shalla basin (Central Rift Valley, Ehtiopia) suffers from a combination of land degradation and agricultural expansion. The agricultural expansion is marked by a shift from rainfed to irrigated horticulture, resulting in intensification in the use of water resources and ultimately a…

17-12-2019 This week, The Board of Directors of the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) voted to accept Acacia Water as its first-ever private sector member. Since its inception in 2003, MWA’s members have been non-profit, non-governmental organizations, working as implementers of safe and clean water, sanitation,…

11-11-2019  
The Taadoud programme works toward improving Natural Resources Management (NRM) in the five states of Darfur – North, South, East, West and Central. Acacia Water is supporting Taadoud II partnership in assessing the hydrological conditions and identifying the landscape opportunities for…

08-11-2019  
Acacia Water can quickly assess and show the water resources development potential of a dryland, water scarce area. Many countries are dealing with issues for provision of clean and safe water. Population growth, land use changes and climate change are widespread and make clean and safe…

25-09-2019 This week, our colleage Koos Groen is in Bangladesh to support the training on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA).  CSA in Bangladesh is a young research field and a lot is to be learned on how CSA in Bangladesh can contribute to a more resilient agricultural sector. In this project the two…

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…