News & Projects

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

08-06-2018 Acacia Water has started working on the Taadoud project, a new project for Catholic Relief Services in Sudan funded by DFID. In Sudan, protracted conflict and displacement of communities are coupled with economic and political uncertainty, climatic variability, and environment degradation. The…

25-05-2018 Uganda’s Karamoja region is characterized by both acute and chronic poverty and has a very low level of social and economic development. Conditions have improved over the past few years, but attempts to implement long-term sustainable solutions have failed. This rampant poverty can mostly be…

25-05-2018 In Eastern Sudan, rainfall is very low and droughts are a common occurrence. Moreover, due to recent conflicts the pressure on water availability has increased enormously. These factors have caused the initiation of the ‘Water for Three States’ project. In this project, Acacia Water is working with…

25-05-2018 The Kinaite River flows northward from the Imatong Mountains eventually dispersing into the wetlands of Badingilo National Park. The Kinaite catchment is an area with a high biodiversity. Today, many locals are heavily dependent on the wetland and forest reserve for timber, firewood, charcoal, bush…

23-03-2018 The 3R Deal book ‘Reaching the millions’  describes 8 thematic investment profiles to achieve impact through rainwater harvesting at scale. 3R, Recharge, Retain and Reuse of rainwater will avoid costly and multiple negative effects and at the same time create social and economic benefits…