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==Geographical Setting==
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Revision as of 15:40, 5 April 2016

Africa Groundwater Atlas >> Hydrogeology by country >> Hydrogeology of Guinea


This page has limited information and needs to be updated. If you have more information on the hydrogeology of Guinea, please get in touch!


Compilers

Dr Kirsty Upton and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, British Geological Survey, UK

Please cite this page as: Upton & Ó Dochartaigh, 2016.

Bibliographic reference: Upton, K. & Ó Dochartaigh, B.É. 2016. Africa Groundwater Atlas: Hydrogeology of Guinea. British Geological Survey. Accessed [date you accessed the information]. https://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Hydrogeology_of_Guinea

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Geographical Setting

Guinea (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the geography resources section)

General

Estimated Population in 2013* 11,745,000
Rural Population (% of total) (2013)* 63.8%
Total Surface Area* 245,720 sq km
Agricultural Land (% of total area) (2012)* 58.6%
Capital City Conakry
Region Western Africa
Border Countries Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal (2013)* 553.3 Million cubic metres
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Agriculture (2013)* 52.9%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Domestic Use (2013)* 37.7%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Industry (2013)* 9.4%
Rural Population with Access to Improved Water Source (2012)* 65%
Urban Population with Access to Improved Water Source (2012)* 92.2%

* Source: World Bank


Climate


Average monthly precipitation for Guinea showing minimum and maximum (light blue), 25th and 75th percentile (blue), and median (dark blue) rainfall Average monthly temperature for Guinea showing minimum and maximum (orange), 25th and 75th percentile (red), and median (black) temperature Quarterly precipitation over the period 1950-2012 Monthly precipitation (blue) over the period 2000-2012 compared with the long term monthly average (red)

For further detail on the climate datasets used see the climate resources section.

Surface water


Major surface water features of Guinea (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the surface water resources section)

Soil

Soil Map of Guinea (For map key and more information on the datasets used in the map see the soil resources section)

Land cover

Land Cover Map of Guinea (For map key and more information on the datasets used in the map see the land cover resources section)


Geology

The geology map shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale. More information is available in the report UN (1988) (see References section, below).



Simplified Geology of Guinea (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the the Geology resources page)

Hydrogeology

The hydrogeology map below shows a simplified version of the type and productivity of the main aquifers at a national scale (see the Hydrogeology Map resource page for more details).

More information on the hydrogeology of Guinea is available in the report United Nations (1988) (see References section, below).

 

Groundwater management

The country has recently adopted programmes for improving water services: the National Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (NDWSSP) and the National Strategy for Development of Public Water Services in Rural and Semi-Urban Areas (SNDSPE). These programmes aim to address the current situation where local authorities have low capacity to implement their responsibility for water service projects in rural and semi-urban areas; and water services are largely being developed in a fragmented project-based way (African Development Bank Group 2013).

There is a central database with information on more than 16,000 water points - mainly boreholes - based on data from different projects that were supervised by the national water authority, but the data are not all well organised. It does, however, include more than 1000 borehole geological logs that are easy to access.


Transboundary aquifers

For further information about transboundary aquifers, please see the Transboundary aquifers resources page.

References

References with more information on the geology and hydrogeology of Guinea can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.

African Development Bank Group. 2013. Institutional support for the national water point management service (SNAPE), Republic of Guinea. OWAS Department, December 2013.

United Nations. 1988. Groundwater in North and West Africa: Guinea. United Nations Department of Technical Cooperation for Development and Economic Commission for Africa, Natural Resources/Water Series No. 18.




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