The AGW-Net was established to increase awareness of the potential and value of groundwater across the continent and to contribute to capacity building in the groundwater sector in Africa.
The objectives of AGW-Net include building capacity for improved groundwater management at all levels.
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No upcoming events are planned, but events in which AGW-Net has participated can be seen in the archives on the Events page. As new events are planned, they will be posted here |
30 March 2012 AGW-Net will be holding a steering committee meeting before mid-year. Key issues to discuss will include the holding of SC elections and the 2012 work plan. 12 December 2011 The annual CapNet managers meeting was held in Hyderabad, India from 12th to 16th December 2011. New funding for network operations was announced. |
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History of AGW-Net
AGW-Net was inaugurated at a meeting held in Pretoria South Africa on 21st and 22nd July 2008 at the Cap-Net offices in the Water Research Commission building. Institutional participants and partners at this inauguration meeting were Cap-Net (UNDP), BGR, WaterNet, WA-Net, Nile IWRM-Net, GWP-SA and UNW-DPC. Also present was the Burdon Network of the International Association of Hydrogeologists.
Twenty water and groundwater specialists representing 20 educational and public sector institutions from 19 countries across Africa attended the meeting. This group agreed unanimously that there was a need for a groundwater group to raise awareness of groundwater in Africa, to promote better management of the resource and to provide a professional and technical link to recent developments on the continent such as eg: the Africa Groundwater Commission (AGWC) established by AMCOW and the SADC Limpopo Groundwater and Drought Management Project (LGDMP). The meeting agreed to inaugurate the Africa Groundwater Network (AGW-Net).
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