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Welcome to Akvopedia, the a free, open -sourced water and , sanitation & hygiene resource (in addition to food security knowledge) that [[How to contribute|anyone can edit]]. We strive to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on Here you will find smart and affordable technical solutions technologies and effective approachesin rural or urban settings. Project teams can learn more about financing, constructing, and maintaining a project in order to keep it functioning and stable for the long term. Some pages are translated in up to 9 languages (upper right of each page may have language flags), as we are increasing new translations continually. We also have the Google translator on each page. It will translate any English page into more than 90 languages. It cannot translate our hand-translated pages, only the English versions of those pages. Akvopedia now contains [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles primarily in English, including some in French and Spanish. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by [http://akvo.org/ Akvo Foundation].
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{||<font size="34">'''NEW Malayalam Page: The [[മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണംSurvey Library]]'''is now live!</font><br>[[ImageThe Survey library contains two "shelves" of information:Indian_water.jpg|200px|right|Source: [http://business.rediffstandards and surveys.com/slide-show/2010/jul/07/slide-show-1-what-is-water-harvesting-how-it-can-curb-water-shortage.htm business.rediff.com]]]We now have a new Indian language translator! He will be helping us Standards assist you in the Water Portal to translate pages into Malayalamgathering, Hindiunderstanding, and Tamil. We hope this will enable our Indian users to gain much using high quality data for decision making in all things water and , sanitation knowledge and find valuable help and resources for their projects, hygiene (WASH) -related. We have started with a translation for our [[Rainwater harvesting]] page with Surveys are questionnaires that apply the alternative language links at the bottom of the pagestandards. More to come!<br>
Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, UNICEF, and SIASAR. For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is a popular standard for sanitation, drinking water, and others.
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* '''New guide''': [[Handbook on Data Collection]]. The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to ensure high quality data is collected and maximum impact is achieved. The Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and implementing a data collection project, focusing on the development sector and including extra resources for more information.
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|[[Image:WHO_Guidelines_2018.png|right|200px|link=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf]]* '''Guide''': [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, a major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and death among children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is also a major cause of risks and anxiety, especially for women and girls. For all these reasons, sanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has been recognized as a basic human right.|-|[[Image:financing papers2.png|right|200px|link=Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''Featured article''': The [[Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]] is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (in emerging markets) - from financial inclusion to private funding and from micro insurance to climate financing. The papers are very close to daily practices, written purely on the basis of experience, insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and Kenya.|-<!-------Translated Pages-------->!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">More newsTranslated pages</h2>
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| [[Image:decisions_mainnational flags.png|noneright|100px250px|link=Decision & Assessment Tools]]* '''NEW PORTAL: [[Decision & Assessment Tools|<font size="2">Decision & Assessment Tools</font>]]''' -Introducing a new Akvopedia portal We are proud to guide announce our users through critical water and sanitation choices. The Akvopedia [[Decision & Assessment ToolsTranslations]] portal has 21 toolsprogram! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, some of which originate from our other portals and some brand new to AkvopediaTamil), Korean, Chinese, consolidated into the new portal for convenience. With so much information on the web coming from the thousands of waterIndonesian, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) organisations around the worldJapanese, users need with many more to know how best to navigate come. See the upper right of each English page for the information streamdifferent language flags. Not all pages have been translated yet. Our most popular translations are: <br>* The entire [[Image: IWRM photo.pngWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |right|100px|link=Integrated_Water_Resources_Management_(IWRM)Rainwater harvesting]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGEsection in Hindi: [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|<font size="2">Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)<वाटर पोर्टल /font>वर्षाजल संचयन]]''' - . <br>* The entire [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |IWRMRainwater harvesting]] is based on the understanding that water resources are an integral component of the ecosystem, a natural resource, and a social and economic good. Managers, whether section in the government or private sectors, have to make difficult decisions on water allocation. More and more they have to apportion diminishing supplies between ever-increasing demands. Drivers such as demographic and climatic changes further increase the stress on water resources. French: [[Image:latrine.png|right|100px|link=Communal LatrinesLa collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: Most of the [[Communal LatrinesWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |<font size="2">Communal Latrines</font>Rainwater harvesting]]''' - This article covers the topic of communal latrines, also called institutional or school latrines. Much of the material section in this article is based on project successes in the Sudan. This is a portion of the document of Technical Guidelines, outlining best practices for the development of the 14 types of water supply and sanitation facilities in the Sudan. Several of them are communal (multi-user) latrines.Spanish: [[File:Community savings.jpg|right|100px|link=Community Based SavingsCaptación de Agua de Lluvia]].
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