IGRAC - International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre

30/10/2026

We welcome 28 new Groundwater Correspondents. The biggest group since the start of our Groundwater Correspondents Network in 2023. Let's meet them👇

🔗 https://un-igrac.org/latest/news/meet-the-28-new-groundwater-correspondents-from-the-2026-2028-group/

Asadullah Farahmand - 🇦🇫
H. G. Vinel GBEWEZOUN - 🇧🇯
Gabriela Patricia FLORES AVILES & David Santiago Rocha - 🇧🇴
Sefering Kaba - 🇧🇫
Audrey Marie Hill & Jenna McMahon - 🇨🇦
Pedro Barros - 🇨🇻
Sebastián Correa Varela & Renata Martínez Barros - 🇨🇱
Yixuan Wang - 🇨🇳
Estefania Casco Argoti - 🇪🇨
Lucas Bouché-Grisoni - 🇫🇷
Mohit Singh - 🇩🇪
Pablo Navas - 🇬🇹
Viktoria Nemeth - 🇭🇺
Mehdi Vahabian - 🇮🇷
Orlaith Tyrrell - 🇮🇪
mohammed badi - 🇰🇪
Ayend-Christ Daou - 🇱🇧
Fousseini KOUYATE, Ph.D - 🇲🇱
Johnson Falana - 🇳🇬
Shahad Al-Yaquoubi - 🇴🇲
Engr. Salah Ud Din . - 🇵🇰
Patricia Angelica Cabrera - 🇵🇭
João Miranda - 🇵🇹
Eldaw Ahmed - 🇸🇩
Rattana Thirathititham - 🇹🇭

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05/10/2026

Just launched at IWA’s and now available for download! A new guide for groundwater monitoring in humanitarian contexts👇

🚰 Humanitarian work often takes place in stressful, ever-changing conditions with only limited resources. so, is it even possible to effectively set up and maintain a functioning monitoring network, despite these challenges and limitations?

📖 “Yes” is the answer of Groundwater Relief, Action contre la Faim France and IGRAC. In this new guide for practitioners and decision-makers, we take you through the different steps from scoping and design to a long-term handover. Each step is illustrated with examples and common pitfall to avoid.

🔗 Download now: https://lnkd.in/eZmHEFUj.

International Water Assoc.

01/10/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Attending the IWA next week? Join us for the groundwater reception and book launch on Monday!

📖 'Groundwater Monitoring in Humanitarian Contexts: A Guide for Practitioners and Decision Makers' is a joint effort of Groundwater Relief, Action contre la Faim (France) and IGRAC. The book provides guidance for designing, implementing and maintaining groundwater monitoring systems in demanding settings, based on field experience and global good practice.

📅 Want to know more? The book launch will take place during the groundwater reception of Monday 5 October (17:00) at the Grundfos pavilion in the exhibition hall.

🗣️ Speakers: jean Lapegue (ACF), Thomas Kelly (GWR), William Veness, PhD (Consultant, Water & Climate Research, Founder & CEO, CatchmentAI) and Elisabeth Lictevout (IGRAC)

17/09/2026

💧 "We are depleting that savings account", says World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Celeste Saulo. So, let's look at the groundwater results.

📊 WMO just launched its annual report, which takes stock of the world's water resources. Like previous years, IGRAC was again responsible for the groundwater chapter.

🌍 After 10 in 2022, 40 in 2023 and 47 in 2024, we now managed to include groundwater monitoring data from 51 countries in this 2025 report.

🔗 Explore the main outcomes here: https://un-igrac.org/latest/news/groundwater-data-from-51-countries-in-latest-state-of-global-water-resources-report-2025/.

📝 Feifei Cao, Elie Gerges & Elisabeth Lictevout

🤝 Special thanks and recognition to the countries who shared groundwater data that made this research possible.

16/09/2026

📢 Just presented at and now accessible to all! Updated MAR Portal with 3,640 sites and open access educational materials.

🌍 The number of Managed Aquifer Recharge sites has more than doubled and the number of countries included went up from 66 to 97.

🔓 As gift to the groundwater community, we created illustrations and animations to explain each of the 17 MAR schemes. All are now available for download and ready to use for lectures or presentations.

🔗 Explore: https://un-igrac.org/latest/news/major-update-of-mar-portal-with-3640-managed-aquifer-recharge-sites-across-97-countries/!

International Association of Hydrogeologists

10/09/2026

🇭🇺 Are you attending the IAH 2026 Congress next week? Meet our staff in Budapest!

💧 Only a few more days until the groundwater community reunites for the annual IAH Congress. Our Director Elisabeth Lictevout and Senior Groundwater Specialist Andy Pearson will share some exciting updates. Find out where to find them: https://un-igrac.org/latest/events/iah-congress-2026-budapest-hungary/!

International Association of Hydrogeologists

25/08/2026

🇿🇦 Are you attending the IAH-SA Symposium this week? Meet our Senior Groundwater Specialist Feifei Cao. 👇

💧 A keynote at the official opening on Wednesday and a groundwater level trends presentation on Friday. Find out when and where you can find IGRAC in Stellenbosch: https://un-igrac.org/latest/events/iah-sa-symposium-2026-stellenbosch-south-africa/.

20/08/2026

🇪🇺 Wildfires in Spain, heat records in the UK and rivers reaching historical lows. But Europe's is not the cause but exacerbator of today's problems.

🌾 Particularly non-irrigated agriculture is affected by the current drought.

📉 IGRAC's recent study, analysing 20 years' worth of groundwater monitoring data, shows that most countries facing issues this summer are the same countries with long-term declining groundwater levels.

🔗 https://un-igrac.org/latest/stories/how-the-current-drought-reveals-europes-long-term-groundwater-issues/

Let's explain how the current drought reveals Europe’s long-term groundwater issues. From drying rivers to halting industry or failing crops.

06/08/2026

🇸🇳 In her new field report, our Groundwater Correspondent Mame Diarra Bousso Diouf shows how salinity is affecting coastal communities.

🚰 From the impacts of water access challenges on the lives of two 10-year old girls to the rice farmers who saw their crops affected. This story shows the 3 faces of groundwater in Senegal: Burden, threat, but also hope.

🔗 https://un-igrac.org/latest/stories/the-three-faces-of-groundwater-in-senegal-burden-threat-and-hope/.

27/07/2026

🗞️ Kristel Chanard in Le Monde: “The major strength of this study is that it goes beyond simply measuring groundwater levels to focus on the impacts of climate change and human activities on aquifers.”

💧 IGRAC’s recent study that revealed 20 years of groundwater imbalance, has also been picked up by some mass media. Find out what they say about it!

🔗 https://un-igrac.org/latest/news/igrac-in-the-media-groundwater-level-trends-research-picked-up-by-le-monde/

Daily Maverick

IGRAC’s recent study that revealed 20 years of groundwater imbalance, has also been picked up by some mass media, including Le Monde.