Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Today from Hiiraan Online: UNESCO Heads
East Africa Water Search Tuesday, May 22, 2012 NAIROBI - The
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, (UNESCO) and officials from Kenya, Ethiopia, and
Somalia Tuesday launched a regional initiative to identify and
improve groundwater resources in the region. UNESCO's
“Strengthening Capacity to Combat Drought and Famine in the Horn
of Africa” project aims to ease the water and food shortages
faced by some nine million people who are still struggling to
recover from last year’s drought and famine, the worst in 60
years. It aims to do so by identifying, assessing and developing
groundwater resources in the three countries using leading-edge
technologies. “So we have satellites in orbit right now that can
let us know what is going on 20 meters even below the surface of
the earth. We can see buried drainage systems [and] rivers, we
can see structures, fractures that are there, which is an
indication for us where is the water,