News & Projects

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…

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…

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…

06-06-2017 To support innovative development the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs finances through VIA Water the ‘Improving Sustainable Groundwater Exploration with Amended Geophysics’ (ISGEAG) project. ISGEAG aims to apply traditional, existing and new geophysical methods in 3 reasonably well researched…

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…