News & Projects

01-03-2015 The water supply of Harar Brewery, since 2011 owned by Heineken, comes from groundwater 30 km away from the brewery and from the natural Ginela spring on the brewery’s premises. By drilling 3 new wells and renovating the Ginela spring, Acacia Water completely renovated the groundwater winning…

01-03-2015 Recharge, Retention and Reuse of water are the three core components of 3R. The 3R concept is applied in regions threatened by water scarcity. The implementation of practical interventions contributes to an innovative and sustainable approach to water management. In practice 3R means collecting and…

01-03-2015 The Dutch Water Supply On-demand Project aims at ‘smarter operational water management’. By supplying freshwater at the right place at the right time it contributes to an optimal distribution of freshwater. The project is well-described by four principles: measuring, knowing, adjusting and…

01-03-2015 The Dutch Spaarwater Project focuses on making and keeping freshwater available. Now and in the future. The project aims for subsistence freshwater storage on small-scale plots. At the moment, the project consortium is running four pilots where subsurface freshwater storage and system-oriented…

01-03-2015 Recharge, Retention and Reuse of water are the three core components of 3R. The 3R concept is applied in regions threatened by water scarcity. The implementation of practical interventions contributes to an innovative and sustainable approach to water management. In practice, 3R means collecting and…

01-03-2015 The program ‘Enhancing food and water security for rural economic development: a regional program in the Sahel and Horn of Africa’ aims to improve livelihoods in semi-arid regions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The program focuses on improving access to water, food safety and…

01-03-2015 The so-called Dutch Spaarwater Project focuses on making and keeping freshwater available. Now and in the future. The project aims for subsistence freshwater storage on small scale plots. At the moment, the project consortium is running four pilots where subsurface freshwater storage and…

01-03-2015 In The Netherlands, local water boards are hold responsible for the management of river embankments, the so-called river dikes. Water board Rivierenland is accountable for administrating, controlling and maintaining many kilometres of river dikes. Dike stability is crucial for Dutch people’s safety…

01-03-2015 Flooding is a major problem in Nouakchott, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (arid climate).  A combination of factors has been indicted as leading to the flooding problem. There is a lack of a properly functioning sewerage and drainage systems, the city is located below sea…

01-03-2015 In the Quarter Amsterdam South-East the thickness of the geological top layer is highly variable. The vulnerability to groundwater related problems is much higher in areas where the top layer is relatively thin.
Waternet commissioned Acacia Water to perform a detailed analysis of the top layer…

01-03-2015 In order to support urban groundwater management a numeric groundwater model was developed for the Municipality of Hillegom, West of Amsterdam.
The model allows the Municipality to assess and evaluate most groundwater related issues themselves. There is no more need to continuously commission…

01-03-2015 The effects of climate change are becoming clear to all of us. To sustain a liveable environment it is quintessential to set-up adequate coping strategies in time; amongst others, to safeguard access to sufficient freshwater, now and in the future.
To support the set-up of coping strategies in…

01-03-2015 In September 2011 one of the most severe droughts of the past decennia threatened the Horn of Africa. On this account, the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, started a project to study the groundwater system of the Merti Aquifer. The main objective was to get an insight in the possibility to extract…

01-03-2015 The project site, a deep polder in the Province of Utrecht, is subject to intensive seepage, boils and uncertainty over soil stability. Over the past years the local water board and the province cooperated in developing sustainable long term planning for the polder. Within the context of these…

01-03-2015 The Climate change and salinization program for the northern Netherlands focused on the current and future impacts of salinization on high-value cash crop agriculture. A series of groundwater studies provided an insight into the role of tile drainage in salinization. Amongst others, research was…