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| [[Africa Groundwater Atlas Home | Africa Groundwater Atlas]] >> [[Additional resources | Resource pages]] >> [[Hydrogeology Maps Of Africa | Hydrogeology and Groundwater Maps of Africa]] >> List of Groundwater and Hydrogeology Maps in Africa
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| | Please go to [[Hydrogeology Maps Of Africa | Groundwater and Hydrogeological Maps of Africa]] |
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| ==List of Groundwater and Hydrogeology Maps in Africa==
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| ===Continental Maps===
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| |Groundwater resources of Africa ||2018 || || ||BGR / WHYMAP ||Paper map with marginalia || ||Special edition produced for 7th Africa Water Week. Depicts current status on groundwater resources mapping in Africa. Includes cross sections, TBA maps and information from regional hydrogeological studies
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| |World Karst Aquifer Map ||2017 || || ||WHYMAP ||Vector shapefile; paper map on poster; available to view in online portal||[https://produktcenter.bgr.de/terraCatalog/OpenSearch.do?search=473d851c-4694-4050-a37f-ee421170eca8&type=/Query/OpenSearch.do Shapefile download] ; [https://www.whymap.org/whymap/EN/Maps_Data/Wokam/wokam_node_en.html Online map portal] ||
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| |Global transboundary aquifer (TBA) maps ||2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017 || || ||IGRAC and UNESCO-IHP ||Created as shapefiles; available to view in online portal; paper map on poster ||[https://tbamap.un-igrac.org Online map portal]||
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| |Global Groundwater vulnerability to floods & droughts||2015 ||1: 25 million || ||WHYMAP ||Vector shapefile; paper map on poster; available to view in online portal ||[https://produktcenter.bgr.de/terraCatalog/OpenSearch.do?search=0cf5c86b-ac00-4c3d-845b-792f8bdce023&type=/Query/OpenSearch.do Shapefile download] ; [https://marportal.un-igrac.org Online map portal] ; [https://www.whymap.org/whymap/EN/Maps_Data/Gwes/gwes_node_en.html Scanned pdf map on poster] ||
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| |Groundwater (aquifer) productivity for Africa ||2012 ||nominal 1:20 million || MacDonald et al ||BGS ||xyz tab-delimited text file (easily convertible to raster/grid in GIS) ||[https://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/international/africangroundwater/mapsDownload.html Download digital map] ||Part of Quantitative Maps of Africa set. Shows estimated relative aquifer productivity based on potential borehole yield (properly located, constructed etc) as a proxy, with 6 classes from Very High (> 20 l/s) to Very Low (< 0.1 l/s)
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| |Groundwater storage for Africa ||2012 ||nominal 1:20 million || MacDonald et al ||BGS ||xyz tab-delimited text file (easily convertible to raster/grid in GIS) ||[https://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/international/africangroundwater/mapsDownload.html Download digital map] ||Part of Quantitative Maps of Africa set. Shows potential groundwater storage as water depth in mm, with 6 classes from 0 to > 50,000 mm
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| |Depth to groundwater for Africa ||2012 ||nominal 1:20 million || MacDonald et al ||BGS ||xyz tab-delimited text file (easily convertible to raster/grid in GIS) ||[https://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/groundwater/international/africangroundwater/mapsDownload.html Download digital map] ||Part of Quantitative Maps of Africa set. Shows potential groundwater storage as water depth in mm, with 6 classes from 0 to > 50,000 mm
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| |Groundwater and river basins of the world ||2012 || || ||WHYMAP ||Scanned pdf ||[https://www.un-igrac.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/whymap_ed2015_25m_map.pdf Scanned pdf] || | |
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| |Groundwater resources map of Africa||2008 || || || WHYMAP ||Scanned pdf map||[https://www.whymap.org/whymap/EN/Maps_Data/Additional_maps/gwrm_africa_pdf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2 Scanned pdf map] ||Extract from ‘Groundwater Resources map of the World
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| |Carte hydrogeologique de l’Afrique Hydrogeological map of Africa ||2008 ||1:10 million ||Jean Jaques Seguin et al ||BRGM || || ||
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| ===Regional / Multi-Country===
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| |Ramotswa Aquifer ||2018? || || ||Ramotswa project consortium ||Created as shapefiles. Available to view in online portal.||Ramotswa Information Management System (RIMS)
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| https://ramotswa.un-igrac.org ||Online portal with maps of the Ramotswa aquifer (Botswana + South Africa). Multiple map layers including aquifer boundary, location of springs, groundwater levels and quality parameters, recharge.
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| |SADC Hydrogeological map ||2010 ||1:2.5 million || ||Sweco Internationl (Sweden); Council for Geoscience (South Africa); Water Geosciences Consulting (South Africa) and Water Resources Consultants (Botswana). ||Created as shapefiles. Available to view in online portal ||Online map portal at www.gip.sadc-gmi.org or www.sadc-gip.un-igrac.org || Hydrogeological map shows aquifer lithology, flow type and groundwater potential
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| |Middle East Hydrogeology / Vorderer Orient Hydrogeologie ||1990 ||1: 8 million ||Schöler et al ||Universität Tübingen, Germany || ||Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr ||
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| |Hydrogeological Map of the Arab Region and Adjacent Areas ||1988 ||1:5 million ||J Khouri & A Droubi ||Regional Office for Science & Technology in the Arab States, ACSAD; WRD & UNESCO || ||Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr ||Covers Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, (CAR?), Algeria, Morocco, WS, Mauritania, parts of Mali, Niger & Chad
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| |Map of groundwater resource potentiality of West and Central Africa ||1986 ||1: 5 million || ||BRGM Paris || || Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr||Combines type of reservoir, mainly based on lithology and potentiality grades, based on number of wells/sources inventoried.
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| |North Africa – Tunesia, Algeria||1983 ||1: 1 million || Stuckmann et al ||German Research Society, Berlin || ||Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr ||
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| |Carte de Planification des Ressources en Eau du Gabon et du Congo||1982 ||1: 1 million || || Comité Interafricain d’Etudes Hydrauliques, Ouagadougou & BRGM, Orléans || ||Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr ||Represents ‘renewable resource of aquifers as fraction of mean effective precipitation. Also shows exploitable reserves, main geological formations, rivers, main wells
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| |Carte de Planification des ressources en eau du Ghana, du Togo et due Benin ||1978 ||1:1 million ||Bourgeois||Comite Interafricain d’Etudes Hydrauliques, Ougadougou / BRGM || ||Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr ||
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| |Carte de planification pour l’exploitation des eaux souterraines de l’Afrique soudano-sahelienne||1976 ||1:1.5 million || ||BRGM with Bureau Central d’Etudes pour les equipments Outre-Mer (Mali) & Comite Inter-africain d’Etudes Hydrauliques (Niger) || || ||
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| |Groundwater in North and West Africa||1975 ||1:4 million || || || ||Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr||
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| |Carte hydrogeologique du Congo Belge et du Ruanda Urundi ||1957 ||1:5 million || M J Snel ||Service Geologique du Congo Belge || ||Scanned image available to view in WHYMAP/WHYMIS portal at https://geoviewer.bgr.de/mapapps4/resources/apps/whymap/index.html?lang=en&tab=whymap_gwr ||
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