Water and Environmental Change in Africa

Hi! Welcome back to my blog!  In last week’s article, we highlighted the need to not consider Africa as a whole but instead to keep in mind its complexity, physically, politically and socially in all aspects. In this week’s post, I would like to bring up the focused themes of this blog: groundwater, climate change and water management. By exploring how these three elements interact in different regions and places in Africa, we will be able to compare, and, hopefully, evaluate different mitigation and adaptation strategies for the better water management system(s) in Africa. Why climate change and why groundwater?  The topic of climate change is under the spotlight when discussing environmental change. The myriad of environmental changes are entangled with climate change and hence discussing its impact can bring new insights into the conversation.  The attention for groundwater is owing to the recognition that groundwater is a critical freshwater resource for global food a...

Hello! Welcome to my blog about water and environmental change in Africa. While the environment is changing rapidly on a global scale, Africa stood out with its characteristics. In this blog, I will create a series of posts addressing and discussing issues about water accessibility in Africa. By exploring different regional examples, I will look into how different regions, countries, or even towns adapt differently to various levels of environmental change in terms of accessing and managing water resources. Through evaluations of their approach, I aim to reflect on the relationship between water and environmental change holistically. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prior to start discussing different regions in Africa, I would like to address the importance of taking ‘ variation ’ and ‘complicity’ into mind when looking at issues about water and environmental change in Africa. This is not only because of the wide stretch of Africa’s latitude, the ...