H53K:
Approaches and Outcomes for Water Security: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Enhance Water Security in Sub-Saharan Africa Posters


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Session ID#: 50770

Session Description:
Current and projected changes in water security risk across Sub-Saharan Africa has driven scientific study and knowledge advances in regard to water availability, accessibility and sustainability.  Often times, research has been conducted on hydrographic units in isolation.  Compelling arguments have been advanced indicating that translational science discovery requires multi-spatial and interdisciplinary research.  This session seeks to bring together engaged researchers conducting multidisciplinary research to evaluate water security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.  In this session, we hope to bring together a diverse community of researchers to discuss threats and opportunities to water security in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as techniques and outcomes of water security research.  Presenters and invited speakers to the session would come from diverse scientific backgrounds to cross-cut the intersection of hydrogeology, climatic sciences, social-economic dimensions and public health.
Primary Convener:  Brian F Thomas, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Jamiat Nanteza, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and Marcela Gonzales Rivas, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marcela Gonzales Rivas, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Chairs:  Brian F Thomas, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Jamiat Nanteza, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
OSPA Liaison:  Brian F Thomas, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessing water security through hydrologic modelling in Olifants River basin, South Africa. (467297)
Afanur Rahman Talukder, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada, Tirupati Bolisetti, University of Windsor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Windsor, ON, Canada and Eddie Riddell, SANPARKS, Skukuza, South Africa
Characterization of Aquifer Productivity over Uganda using Pumping Test Data (432171)
Dennis Nambale, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Groundwater Characterization across the Kyoga Basin in Uganda (428624)
Mary Nancy Nahabbo, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Low-cost, high-frequency groundwater monitoring for water security in Somalia (457404)
Wouter Buytaert1, Zi Qing Gan2, Adrian P Butler3, Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi2, Khaled Haibe4 and Dustin Caniglia5, (1)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (4)Concern Worldwide, Hargeisa, Somalia, (5)Concern Worldwide, Nairobi, Kenya
The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict (393926)
Cara B Thuringer1, Julia McQuaid2, Douglas Jackson2, Lars Hanson3 and Marcus DuBois King4, (1)CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States, (2)CNA Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, (3)CNA Corporation, Arlington, United States, (4)George Washington University, Washington, United States

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