Groundwater

The growing importance of groundwater in providing safe and reliable water is confirmed by the reliance of the following on groundwater sources:

• Domestic water supply;
• Rural water supply;
• Emergency water supply (eg for refugee camps);
• Urban water supply;
• Commercial and industrial users;
• Agriculture and irrigation.

GIBB Africa Ltd is able to offer qualified staff to professionally undertake the following:

• Desk studies and resources assessments;
• Hydrogeological surveys;
• Geophysical surveys;
• Groundwater resources and quality modelling;
• Groundwater development designs;
• Groundwater management planning;
• Turnkey groundwater projects.

Some of the projects undertaken in the past 5 years include:

• Tender documents for Mzima and Tiwi, Kenya;
• Shinyanga water supply and sanitation project, Tanzania;
• Preparation of investment plan and the associated feasibility studies for the coast region, Kenya;
• Athi Water Services Board institutional & legal framework review, Kenya;
• Emergency rehabilitation works Juba,Sudan;
• Mid term review of Nairobi water and sewerage institutional restructuring project & investment Plan, Kenya;
• Aweil Emergency Works Programme, Sudan;
• Qacha’s Nek Water Supply & Sanitation, Lesotho;
• Hargeisa alternative water supply, Somalia;
• Selebi Phikwe water masterplan,Botswana.