Oiro, SamsonComte, Jean-ChristopheSoulsby, ChrisMacdonald, AlanMwakamba, Canute2021-02-032021-02-032020-12Oiro, S, Comte, J-C, Soulsby, C, Macdonald, A & Mwakamba, C 2020, 'Depletion of groundwater resources under rapid urbanisation in Africa : recent and future trends in the Nairobi Aquifer System, Kenya', Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 2635-2656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-020-02236-51431-2174ORCID: /0000-0002-5129-8391/work/82007081https://hdl.handle.net/2164/15773Open Access via the Springer Compact Agreement Acknowledgements: We acknowledge the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Environment and Sustainability Research Grant for supporting the fieldwork activities, and The World Bank/Aurecon AMEI Limited for supporting model scenarios simulations. We are also grateful to the Kenyan Water Resources Authority (WRA) and the University of Aberdeen for jointly supporting Samson Oiro’s PhD scholarship. We warmly thank WRA staff involved in data compilation and acquisition as well as the WRA offices (Nairobi and Kiambu Office) for providing the borehole completion reports and abstraction records. We thank three reviewers for their constructive comments which contributed to improve the final manuscript.225800937engSDG 6 - Clean Water and SanitationLong-term groundwater recordsAquifer depletionHydrogeological conceptual model and numerical modellingNairobi aquifer systemKenyaGroundwater monitoringConceptual modelNumerical modellingSTORAGE CHANGESEASTWATERCLIMATEG Geography (General)GE Environmental SciencesWater Science and TechnologyEarth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)OtherSupplementary DataG1GEJournal article10.1007/s10040-020-02236-5http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091867553&partnerID=8YFLogxK288