News & Projects

27-07-2016 In June 2016, the ”Support to Improved Integrated Catchment Management for Increased Community Resilience” project started in Karamoja, northeastern Uganda. In this area the rivers Lokok and Lokere run from extremely arid areas into the marshes downstream. The region is characterized by drought,…

20-05-2016 The prolonging droughts in Southern and East Africa threatens the region with extreme water and food shortages. Also in Sudan. Within the ‘Water for Three States’ project Acacia Water works on the improved access to safe drinking water and sanitation. It investigates the water balance of 15…

06-05-2016 From April 25 until 27 Acacia Water was in Nairobi, Kenya, to give a refresher training on the concepts ‘Recharge, Retention and Reuse’ (3R) and ‘Multiple Uses Systems’ (MUS) to approximately 45 county experts and County Coordination Unit (CCU) officers in the field of water, livestock, planning and…

11-12-2015 The IGAD Inland Water Resources Management Programme (IGAD-INWRMP) has awarded IGRAC and Acacia Water with a contract for the ‘Design and development of a data system for the application of Management for Aquifer Recharge (MAR) in the Horn of Africa (HoA)’. The overall emphasis of the project is to…

09-12-2015 The Government of Kenya has approached the Dutch investment company ORIO to support the investment in infrastructure for the Habaswein-Wajir Water Supply project. The project proposes to draw water from the Merti Aquifer to supply the city of Wajir with drinking water, through a 120 km pipeline. The…

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 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 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 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 An elaborated hydrogeological study was carried out in Kenya within the framework of the Millenium Water Alliance. The project focused on increasing and improving the natural and artificial water storage capacity in arid countries. The core objective of this project was mapping the possibilities for…

01-03-2015 There is so much water in Bangladesh that it is almost unimaginable that for large periods there is a shortage of freshwater. Drinking water shortages are becoming more and more common. Precipitation during the wet season should be sufficient to supply drinking water to rural households. However,…