News & Projects

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…