{"id":176,"date":"2014-09-29T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2014-09-29T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:49:14","slug":"the-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-family: georgia;font-size: 17px;font-weight: normal;color: grey\">Many African cities are growing rapidly and demand for water resources is\u00a0constantly changing. By understanding the urbanisation process we aim to improve future planning and increase the proportion of the population that have access to\u00a0safe water.<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"font-family: verdana;color: #336666\">Groundwater and future land use scenarios<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_157\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/files\/2014\/08\/filling-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-image-157\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/files\/2014\/08\/filling-water-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Villagers filling containers from a piped water supply\" width=\"195\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Villagers fill containers from a piped water supply Photo: Steve Pedley<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Due to the expansion of\u00a0African towns and cities,\u00a0use of water resources is rapidly changing. Statistical work suggests that for many cities, the pattern of urbanisation is quite unpredictable, making it hard to plan for the future.<\/p>\n<p>To explore the different urbanisation pathways that Kisumu could take, we intend to use a technique often used in management studies known as scenario planning. This technique involves developing scenarios of how land use could change based on plausible future sequences of events. As a result, we hope to be in a position\u00a0to be able to inform future water resource planning leading up to\u00a0the year 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many African cities are growing rapidly and demand for water resources is\u00a0constantly changing. By understanding the urbanisation process we aim to improve future planning and increase the proportion of the population that have access to\u00a0safe water. Groundwater and future land use scenarios Due to the expansion of\u00a0African towns and cities,\u00a0use of water resources is rapidly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67305,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/groundwater2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}