Category Archives: KNUST-Research

Kwame Nkrumah University for Sciences and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, partners with the Nigeria National Water Resources Institute (NWRI), to strengthen water resource management in the region.

Prior to the shortcourse that is scheduled to start on 27 October 2025, the Regional Water and Environmental Sanitation Centre Kumasi (RWESCK) on Monday 20 October 2025, received a three member delegation from the National Water Resources Institute (NWRI) Kaduna for a working visit.

The team comprised of Engr. Sylvester Gojim Sara, Dr. Vivien Chigoke Ameso and Engr. Zubair Anuhi Usman. As part of their engagements, they paid a courtesy call on the local ACEWATER III PI, Prof Geophrey Anornu to discuss strategies to strengthen the collaboration between RWESCK and the NWRI. They also toured some of the facilities at the RWESCK, including the water quality labs, hydraulic labs and water resources engineering labs.

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ACEWATER III enabling capacity building: Emerging scholars at the African Doctoral Academy Winter School, 7-28 July 2025, Stellenbosch University

12 delegates from four different AUDA-NEPAD Water Centres of Excellence are attending the Africa Doctoral Academy (ADA) Winter School. The Centres of Excellence include the University of Malawi, the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique, the University of Mauritius, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. The course durations were all one week, and taught online, hybrid, in-person, and taught by world-class experts in their respective fields. All courses include certification. Courses include:

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Through the ACEWATER III project, the first basin-wide groundwater flow model of the Zambezi River basin has been produced

As part of the ACEWATER III project, the University of Zambia, with Prof Kawawa Banda as the lead, has produced this first basin-wide groundwater flow model of the Zambezi River Basin, using Feflow. The model can be used as a quantitative tool to conduct spatial exploratory analysis.

The article titled Zambezi River Basin aquifer systems: Opportunities and challenges in using freely available data sources and groundwater flow modelling for spatial exploratory analysis was published in in the Journal” Groundwater for Sustainable Development” and available from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352801X25000189