This
is a joint Project of UNEP-DEWA in collaboration with UNESCO-IHP
as the implementing agency, UN-Habitat and ECA as regional
and political partners. The project aims to build on the successes
achieved in earlier work carried out in six (Benin, Burkina
Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger and Senegal) West African
countries and includes four new Anglophone countries i.e. Ghana,
Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia. Its aim is to determine the status
and vulnerability of groundwater supplies in cities of the
selected countries, establish a network for exchange of related
information, and develop suitable methodologies for assessing
and monitoring of real and potential contamination of shallow
and deeper groundwater aquifers. In the process, awareness
on groundwater status at all levels will be raised and institutional
capacity enhanced. The findings obtained will form the basis
for formulating groundwater use policy and options for safeguarding
and sustaining the resource. |
