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Unfortunately, my blog is now coming to a close. Anyone who's followed it I hope you've learnt something about the challenges climate change will present to Sub-Saharan African water supply and development, I certainly have.

The main conclusions I have taken from my research are:

Climate change is going to impact SSA hugely through rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and a lack of adaptive capacity. All the while, SSA has played next to no part in inducing such climate change. 

Groundwater does offer a potential solution where it is viable and sustainable over a number of decades. Each groundwater scenario must be judged independently and a one-size-fits-all technique will not be successful in the long term, the diversity and variety of water supply within SSA is just too large. With this mapping and measurement of groundwater (and all water) resources is paramount to successful, sustainable management. 

It will require a global effort to help SSA deal with climate change, and it is likely that mass migration will occur at some point. This could be an areas carrying capacity decreases, and therefore a proportion of a population has to move, or an area becoming completely inhospitable. 

The challenges climate change will bring for SSA are very much real, but with global cooperation and a willingness to solve problems internationally a lack of clean water in SSA can be a thing of the past.