chapter 1 Groundwater research issues in Africa / chapter 2 Groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa: A strategic overview of developmental issues / chapter 3 Groundwater development for poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa / chapter 4 A GIS-based flow model for groundwater resources management in the development areas in the eastern Sahara, Africa / chapter 5 Water resources management in the Lake Chad basin: Diagnosis and action plan / chapter 6 The benefits of a scientific approach to sustainable development of groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa / chapter 7 Sustainable groundwater development in Nigeria / chapter 8 A remedial approach for soil and groundwater impacted by crude oil in the Niger delta / chapter 9 African hydrogeology and rural water supply / chapter 10 Groundwater as a vital resource for rural development: An example from Ghana / chapter 11 An overview of the geology and hydrogeology of Nigeria / chapter 12 The occurrence of groundwater in northeastern Ghana / chapter 13 Application of remote-sensing and surface geophysics for groundwater prospecting in a hard rock terrain, Morocco / chapter 14 Urban groundwater management and protection in Sub-Saharan Africa / chapter 15 Urban groundwater and pollution in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / chapter 16 Groundwater mining: A reality for the Lusaka urban aquifers? / chapter 17 Impact of the Casablanca municipal landfill on groundwater resources (Morocco) / chapter 18 Groundwater in Africa – palaeowater, climate change and modern recharge / chapter 19 Estimating groundwater recharge in the southwestern sector of the Chad basin using chloride data / chapter 20 Groundwater in North and Central Sudan / chapter 21 Hydrochemical and stable isotopes compositions of saline groundwaters in the Benue Trough, Nigeria / chapter 22 Hydrochemical and isotopic characteristics of coastal groundwater near Abidjan (southern Ivory Coast) / chapter 23 Hydrogeochemistry of a fractured aquifer in the Ogoja/Obudu area of SE Nigeria / chapter 24 Salinity problems in coastal aquifers: Case study from Port Harcourt city, southern Nigeria / chapter 25 Groundwater flow and transport modeling in semi-arid Africa: Salt accumulation in river-fed aquifers / chapter 26 Three-dimensional modelling of a coastal sedimentary basin of southern Benin (West Africa) / chapter 27 Groundwater modelling and implication for groundwater protection: Case study of the Abidjan aquifer, Côte d’Ivoire / chapter 28 Geostatistical assessment of the transmissivity of crystalline fissured aquifer in the Bondoukou region, north-eastern Cote d’Ivoire / chapter 29 Technical note: Hydrogeological mapping in Africa