Links

Useful links

• Groasis, a website about the Groasis waterboxx - an 'intelligent water battery' that produces and captures water from the air through condensation and rain. The condensation is caused by artificial stimulation and the water is captured through physical capacities, without using energy.
• SamSam Water provides information, advice and tools themed around water and sanitation. All information, including on their projects relating to water harvesting is made available on their internet site.
• WAHARA (EC/FP7) project will contribute to closing these knowledge gaps, as it will study local Water Harvesting (3R related) solutions in 4 study sites throughout Africa from a transdisciplinary perspective that takes into account not only bio-physical aspects, but also socio-economic aspects and political conditions.
• Map Database of the Horn of Africa on Environment (Land cover, aridity, etc.), Population (density, pastoralist areas), Humanitarian Monitoring (food security, FEWS Net, USAID), Current projects (food security) and Methodology (climate change, water crop productivity)
• FAO Water Productivity Open-access Portal (WaPOR). An open-access database, covering Africa and the Near East, with (mainly) Remotely Sensed data, to monitor, in near real time, agricultural water and land productivity as well carbon dioxide uptake by vegetation.