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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT

Improved siting of groundwater development target areas and boreholes. See the details of our common project with Chalmers University of Technology on Remote Sensing Data for Effective Borehole Siting.

NATIONAL GROUNDWATER QUALITY MONITORING PROJECT

The setup of Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network, the basic information about monitoring parameters and preliminary results can be found here.

GROUNDWATER RESOURCE ALLOCATION MODEL (GRAM)

The information on the MS Excel based Groundwater Resource Allocation Model has been produces at the Directorate.

For information on groundwater education and awareness building contact Boniface Aleobua.

For details on our research and development contact Eddie van Wyk.

 

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STANDARD BOREHOLE DESCRIPTORS

Long awaited documentation that is attempting to standardise the way the data related to groundwater, and boreholes in particular is available for general perusal. Substantial amount of work is behind the pages that can now be downloaded for daily reference. The project that generated the document was enabled thanks to generous support of the NORAD, the Norwegian Agency for the Development Cooperation.

 

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