DW News published this video item, entitled “Could groundwater drilling solve the drought problems in the Horn of Africa? | DW News” – below is their description.
Climate change continues to make it mark in Africa, disrupting weather patterns and in some cases, making them more extreme. The Horn of Africa is facing the threat of a fifth consecutive failed rainy season – and that’s brought with it frequent devastating droughts. But a solution could be much closer than many realize. It turns out that beneath the region’s dry plains, there’s an increasing amount of…groundwater, enough to make droughts a thing of the past. The World Bank has allocated money to explore this and the private sector is already drilling in some places. If successfully tapped into on a large scale, groundwater could be a gamechanger for the continent’s most vulnerable regions.
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