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First Tidal Acquisition Corp. is a Canada-based capital pool company. The Company's principal business is the identification and evaluation of a qualifying transaction and once identified or evaluated, to negotiate an acquisition or participation in a business subject to receipt of shareholder approval, if required, and acceptance by regulatory authorities. The Company has not generated revenues from operations.

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Post by franky06on Jul 09, 2012 9:48pm

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The Future of Africa’s Water Security

Special thanks to Kavitha Pramod for co-authoring this essay

Not long ago, the BBC reported ( Africa remains one of the poorest regions in the world in terms of access to fresh water resources. A recent report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (

4 Responses to “The Future of Africa’s Water Security”

Dominique Michel Alhéritièresays:

May 28, 2012 at 12:20 pm

It seems that like most media the BBC is missing several points, the main one being that the reserves are GIGANTIC and that to speak about their depletion is almost like if one would have spoken about the risk of depletion of flinstones because of the unregulated exploitation by the Neanderthaliens ! Media players can’t help it: if there is no worry there is no story. As the the “discovery” it is indeed a questionable one because geologists have known about these reserves for at least the past 40 years and a few UN reports of the mid-70s attest that fact !
Brian Luenowsays:

May 29, 2012 at 7:56 pm

If the world has known about this water for 40 years it makes you wonder why its being brought up again as a new discovery. Hopefully it’s to encourage sustainable investment and development in Africa and not to invite industries that are going to exploit this “new” water. If history is any indication of how the world will look at this “new” mass of water it probably would have been better not to re-discover it.
Raj Kumar Dawsays:

May 30, 2012 at 12:51 am

I have worked in Africa a bit on rural drinking water supply and nowhere (Eritrea, Nigeria, Kenya, South Sudan) have I come across reliable data related to water – rainfall, boreholes, yields, etc. I am very skeptical about such broad generalisations.
Pat Keyssays:

May 30, 2012 at 6:54 am

Much of the issue with sustainable access to clean drinking water is not a crisis of availability – but a crisis of effective management. Sustainable access to irrigation water, stable flows for hydropower production, and adequate lifestyle water (e.g. watering lawns) is a different story.
In much of Africa, additional water supplies can only be brought to be bear with effective and transparent institutions, and so it will be wonderful if this re-discovery of groundwater can serve as a catalyst to develop institutions to govern these water supplies.
Also, in response to Raj Kumar Daw, the concern about data origin is warranted. However, the supplemental material to the recent MacDonald et al. paper is available on the website, and for your cross-checking ease, I’ve pulled the links here (supplement 1: Georeferenced datasets and sources –https://goo.gl/bQRKd ; supplement 2: Confidence attributed to different datasets- https://goo.gl/SqBrJ )