Akvopedia structure

The following shows the current thinking how we want to structure the Akvopedia.

Akvopedia structure thoughts 2008

Akvopedia structure thoughts 2010

Akvopedia structure thoughts 2011

Water (Focus)

• Water Collection
  • Rainwater harvesting
    • Rooftop
    • Rooftop storage tank
    • Runoff / contour systems
  • Fog water harvesting
    • Nets
    • Trees
  • Surface water harvesting
    • Dams
    • Water intake
    • Tyrolean weir
    • Planting pits
    • Closed micro-catchment
    • Semi-circular bunds
    • Infiltration improvement
  • Groundwater abstraction
    • Pumps
      • Treadle pump
      • Rope / elephant pump
      • PVC / deep well pump
      • Fuel efficient motor pump
      • Motorized deep well pump
      • Horse and wind powered pumps
      • Hand pumps
    • Wells
      • Dug wells in rock
      • Dug wells in coarse material
      • Dug wells in fine material
      • Bamboo screens
      • Tube wells
    • Drilling techniques
      • Baptist / Emas drilling
      • Rota sludge well drilling
      • Stone hammer well drilling
  • Springwater
    • Artesian depression spring
    • Small capacity fissure spring
    • Large capacity fissure spring
    • Artesian contact spring
    • Gravity spring
    • Gravity overflow spring
    • Tapping from a fractured rock aquifer
• Storage and artificial recharge
  • Groundwater
    • Sub surface dam
    • Percolation
    • Vetiver contours
    • Differentiated water, moisture and soil conservation
    • Contour trenching
    • Teras
    • Tube recharge of groundwater
  • Tanks and reservoirs
    • Storage tanks for rooftop harvesting
      • Underground tanks
      • Wire cement tanks
      • Plastic lined tanks
    • Elevated service reservoir
    • Small service reservoir
• Treatment
  • Ceramic filters
  • Sodis
  • Biosand filters
  • Planted soil filter
  • Safe Water Systems
• Use of water
  • Irrigation
    • Lay hose
    • Flat hose
    • Spray head
    • Pepsi drip
    • Nica drip
    • Spate irrigation
  • Drinking water
  • Sanitation
  • Domestic water
  • Ponds
    • Pond farming
    • Finger ponds
• Distribution
  • Water transportation
    • Pipe lines
    • Tankers
  • Water provision
    • Standpipes
    • Communal taps ‘Cistem’
    • Elevated service reservoir
• Water management
• Water and environment → (a link)

Sanitation (Focus)

• Sanitation
  • Toilets
    • Arborloo
    • Dry toilets
    • Dry Urine diversion toilets
    • Pour flush-toilets
    • Waterless urinals
  • Collection pits
    • Fossa Alterna
    • Oil drums and containers
    • Vault and chambers
    • Aqua Privy
  • Transportation
    • Cartage system
    • MAPET / Vacutug system
    • Settled sewerage
  • Treatment
    • Co-composting
    • Dehydratation
    • Planted soil filter
    • Anaerobic digestion
  • Use of products
    • Compost as soil conditioner
    • Human urine as fertilizer
    • Biogas as source of energy

Organisations portal (Focus)

• NGO's
  • Networks
  • International NGO's
  • National NGO's
  • Local NGO's
• Governments
  • Central governments
  • Local governments
• Commercial companies
  • Suppliers
  • Engineers
  • Consultants
• Banks
  • Development banks
  • Commercial banks
• Knowledge & research
  • Knowledge centers
  • Universities

Approaches portal (Focus)

• Self help approach
  • Site considerations
  • Appropriate technology
  • Tools
  • Safety and health
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Site management
  • Maintenance
  • Cost estimation
  • Program management
  • Funding
• Community approach
  • Site considerations
  • Recruitment & Mobilization
  • Wages & contracts
  • Appropriate technology
  • Tools
  • Safety and health
  • Supervision
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Site management
  • Maintenance
  • Cost estimation
  • Program management
  • Policies and law
  • Training
  • Funding
• Project management
• Sector wide approach (SWAP)
  • Program management
  • Contact facilitation

Water and environment portal

• Waterbody restoration
• Water pollution
• Groundwater management
• Water quality

Geographic portal

With connection to Google Earth / Google Maps

• Continents
  • Countries
    • Regions

Thematic areas portal

• Self supply
• Cost-effective boreholes
• Sustainable water supplies
• Handpump technology
• Water and sanitation sector performance measurement
• Impact

Guidelines portal

• Project implementation
• Contract management
• Borehole siting and supervision
• Technology
  • Water
  • Sanitation
• Community mobilisation and sensitization
• Participatory Hygien and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST)

Technology and tools portal

• Computer
  • Software
  • Hardware
• Appropriate technology
• Field tools
  • Well drills
  • Link to → Water and sanitation technology

Training portal

• Educational material
• How to organize training
• Self help groups
• Women groups
• Watershed management

Personal Stories

• Water and sanitation users
• Community-based organizations
• Local government staff
• Volunteers
• Entrepreneurs
• Companies
• Others

Academic papers portal

Include links to WEDC conference papers and encourage people to post abstracts with links.