The Rapid Assessment of Groundwater Availability (RAGA) project held its dissemination workshop at the CSIR Water Research Institute in Accra, bringing together key stakeholders in Ghana's water sector to discuss innovative approaches and findings in groundwater exploration. The workshop, chaired by Prof. Leonard K. Amekudzi, Provost of the College of Science at KNUST, showcased the project's multidisciplinary efforts and the promising potential of AI technology in improving groundwater management.
Over two billion individuals worldwide rely on subterranean water as their primary reservoir of clean water. Ensuring the sustainable management of this heavily burdened resource necessitates a comprehensive quantitative evaluation of groundwater reserves. This becomes even more critical as water resources face escalating demands resulting from socioeconomic growth, population expansion, and the impacts of climate change.
We seek to develop an innovative web-based artificial intelligence driven open-source framework to predict groundwater availability in Ghana We intend to achieve this aim by building a database of spatio-temporal hydrogeological, and climate variables; developing AI algorithms and workflows for integration of varied data sources and prediction of groundwater availability and developing an open-source web-based application for rapid groundwater availability assessment to be used by stakeholders and the general populace