MENAdrought: toward drought management in Morocco
Event Presentations: Scaling Up Experiential Learning Tools for Sustainable Water Governance in India
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As a common pool resource, water is easily depleted if no effective coordination exists among users to ensure provision and regulate withdrawals. The Scaling up experiential learning tools for sustainable water governance in India project aims to enhance sustainable water management at scale by improving the capacities of rural communities to manag...
Impact of altitude on spring macroinvertebrates and water quality in South West region of Cameroon
Published in International Journal of Limnology
We evaluated the impact of altitude on the biodiversity and water quality of 13 springs located from 82 to 1,189m a.s.l. on Mount Cameroon. Despite lower temperature and more oxygen at higher altitudes, diversity, including EPT did not increase. Therefore, African fauna reacts similarly to the faunas of other areas of the world. African species app...
"Pseudo"-Secondary Treatment Failure Explained via Disease Progression and Effective Botulinum Toxin Therapy: A Pilot Si...
Published in Toxins
The objective of this study was to provide evidence from a simple simulation. In patients with focal dystonia, an initial good response to botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) injections followed by a secondary worsening does not necessarily arise from an antibody-induced secondary treatment failure (NAB-STF), but may stem from a "pseudo"-secondary treatmen...
Microbial degradation and assimilation of veratric acid in oxic and anoxic groundwaters
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Microbial communities are key players in groundwater ecosystems. In this dark environment, heterotrophic microbes rely on biomass produced by the activity of lithoautotrophs or on the degradation of organic matter seeping from the surface. Most studies on bacterial diversity in groundwater habitats are based on 16S gene sequencing and full genome r...
Land cover changes in the Upper Great Ruaha (Tanzania) and the Upper Awash (Ethiopia) river basins and their potential i...
Over the past century, the world has experienced an unprecedented surge in population growth, accompanied by a significant increase in economic activity and fuelled by an intensive utilization of natural resources, including water. This phenomenon has brought about profound alterations in land cover and land use patterns across various regions. Kno...
Molecular detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in water using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry...
Published in Frontiers in Chemistry
Water footprint indicators facing the water cycle complexity
The following points are addressed: 1) Water resources (global pictures, rivers and aquifers, quantity and quality issues, climate changes impact on the water cycle) 2) Terminology (used, consumed, produced, withdrawn, blue, green, and gray waters) 3) Summary of Water Footprint and water LCA approaches 4) Notion of local water balance 5) Examples w...
Water storages in Tana-Beles Sub-basin of Ethiopia: what do we know, and where should we go?
The Tana-Beles sub-basin, a strategic economic growth corridor in Ethiopia, relies on water storage to provide a suite of key services to agriculture, drinking water supply, energy, and ecosystems. While there are a range of storage options (e.g., from large dams to subsurface aquifers) that can be utilized to provide these services, a systematic s...
Sustainable management of groundwater resources in Morocco and Tunisia: how existing cases of functional groundwater man...
In Morocco and Tunisia, the over-exploitation of groundwater is increasing, against a backdrop of decreasing rainfall and rising demand for water. After several years of implementation, the regulatory approach and that seeking to mobilise ever more new water resources have shown their limits. However, a number of cases at international level demons...
