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Water Security: Past News & Events

EI Water Seminars

An inter-departmental seminar series promoting interdisciplinary
discussion and debate over water science within UCL

When:  Alternate Mondays at 1:00pm -2.00pm
Where: Room G07, Pearson Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Monday 10th October 2011

Karen Hudson-Edwards, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Birkbeck)
Mining and Water: Contamination, Remediation and Future Issues

Monday 24th October 2011

Chiara Ambrosino, Department of Statistical Sciences
Precipitation analysis for hydrology and water resources: some statistical tools and models

Monday 21st November 2011

Sarah Bell, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
The technical code of water in cities
&
Julien Harou, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Policy and regulatory design for UK water and environment regulators -Building custom water management models

Monday 5th December 2011

Paul Sutherland & Willy Burgess, Department of Earth Sciences
Effective vertical permeability in sedimentary basins – scoping the impacts of Coal Bed Methane development on shallow groundwater

Monday 12th December 2011

UCL Environment Institute, Institute for Global Health and Urban Lab Seminar

Elisa Roma, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ‘Sustainable sanitation initiatives in eThekwini municipality, South Africa’ Luiza Campos, Environmental Engineering, UCL ‘Sustainable and resilient sanitation service chains for the urban poor’

Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa

A M MacDonald, H C Bonsor, B É Ó Dochartaigh and R G Taylor

Abstract

Substantial groundwater resources underlie Africa

New research by the British Geological Survey and Richard Taylor (UCL Geography) maps and, for the first time, quantifies the substantial groundwater resources that underlie the African continent. This study funded by the Department for International Development and published in the open-access journal, Environmental Research Letters, reveals that groundwater resources in Africa are orders of magnitude greater than the water present at the surface in rivers, lakes and wetlands. The quantitative maps draw from over 250 studies. The analysis reveals, however, that high-intensity abstraction of groundwater (e.g. individual wells pumping in excess of 10 litres per second) for irrigation and town water supplies may only be possible in a few areas. Low-intensity development of groundwater may nevertheless prove an invaluable strategy in many parts of Africa to adapt to the current high variability that exists in surface water resources and rainfall which is expected to increase as a result of global warming.

View full paper

British Geological Survey

Dr Richard Taylor

Media:

Al Jazeera YouTube

DFID news with Andrew Mitchell quote

EI Water Seminars

February - March 2012 (download pdf flyer)


The EI Water Seminar Series is chaired by Richard Taylor (Geog)& Sarah Bell (CEGE)
All UCL Staff and Students are welcome.

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London Water Seminar Series (download flyer here.)

The "London Water Seminars" are a tri-campus affair involving Imperial, UCL and KCL.  In autumn 2011, we will run 3 seminars, one in each of KCL, UCL and Imperial. We have two confirmed speakers and dates (see below) so please put these in your diaries. 12 December at UCL: Professor Stephen Foster (UK, World Bank)

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"Global Water Challenges" & LERU

UCLEI will host a one-day seminar on "Global Water Challenges" bringing together European expertise from LERU (League of European Research Universities) to UCL to do two things:

(1) determine what expertise LERU institutions possess and are employing to study global water challenges;

(2) to define, from the perspective of the contributing LERU institutions,  what are the global water challenges.

It is expected that the outputs from this seminar will inform research funding priorities of the EU and members state.

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Useful Links

LERU

Planet Under Pressure 2012