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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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|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=sust portal icon.png|alt=Sustainability Portal|width=140px|link=Sustainability Portal}}</div> The [[Sustainability Portal|Sustainability Portal]] contains information on numerous sustainability frameworks, tools, and methods, using the F.I.E.T.S approach.
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|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=decisions portal box.png|alt=Decision & Assessment Tools|width=140px|link=Decision & Assessment Tools}}</div> [[Decision & Assessment Tools|Decision & Assessment Tools]] contain several tools, assessments, or kits that aid in the implementation of water and sanitation projects in an easier way.
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|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=Food-security-box.png|alt=Food & Nutrition Security Portal|width=140px|link=Food & Nutrition Security Portal}}</div> [[Food & Nutrition Security Portal|Food & Nutrition Security Portal]] helps people improve their access to nutritional, quality food, supporting the right to food, availability and the best utilization of food.
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|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=SNV logo.png|alt=Sustainable Oil Palm Farming|width=140px|link=Sustainable Oil Palm Farming}}</div> [[Sustainable Oil Palm Farming | Sustainable Oil Palm Farming]] helps oil palm smallholders to increase the productivity of their plantations and income in a sustainable way.
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{|[[Image:akvopedia_Survey-Outcomes_Graphic_v1.1-1.jpg|right|250px|link=http://akvo.org/blog/akvopedia-how-are-we-doing/]]<font size="34">'''Akvopedia The [[http://akvo.org/blog/akvopedia-how-are-we-doing/ Survey ResultsLibrary]] are inis now live!'''</font><br>This past springThe Survey library contains two "shelves" of information: standards and surveys. Standards assist you in gathering, we conducted a survey among Akvopedia users to better understand understanding, and using high quality data for decision making in all things water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) -related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. Some of the supporting organizations who is using 've created the sitestandards are WHO, UNICEF, how they use it and whySIASAR. This survey provided For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is a sample to complement site metrics gathered by our web analytics systempopular standard for sanitation, drinking water, and others. You can read more about the thinking behind the survey |[[httpImage://akvoSurvey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org/blog/9]]|}{|!<h2 style="margin:0; font-questionssize:130%; text-for-akvopedians/ here]align:left; color:#535353; padding:0. The survey was available on Akvopedia for roughly six weeks and, during that time, we had a total of 544 responses2em 0.4em;">More news<br/h2>
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|[[Image:Indian_water.jpg|100px|right|Source: [http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/07/slide-show-1-what-is-water-harvesting-how-it-can-curb-water-shortage.htm business.rediff.com]]]* '''NEW Malayalam Page: [[മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം|<font size="2">മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം</font>]]''' - We now have a new Indian language translator! He will be helping us in the Water Portal to translate pages into Malayalam, Hindi, and Tamil. We hope this will enable our Indian users to gain much water and sanitation knowledge and find valuable help and resources for their projects. We have started with a translation for our [[Rainwater Harvesting]] page with the alternative language links at the bottom of the page. More to come![[Image:decisions_mainfinancing papers2.png|right|100px200px|link=Decision & Assessment ToolsFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''NEW PORTAL: [[Decision & Assessment Tools|<font size="2">Decision & Assessment Tools</font>]]Featured article''' -Introducing a new Akvopedia portal to guide our users through critical water and sanitation choices. : The [[Decision & Assessment ToolsFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]] portal has 21 tools, some is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of which originate from our other portals and some brand new to Akvopedia, consolidated into the new portal for convenience. With so much information on the web coming from the thousands sustainable financing of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASHin emerging markets) organisations around the world, users need - from financial inclusion to know how best private funding and from micro insurance to navigate the information streamclimate financing. [[Image: IWRM photo.png|right|100px|link=Integrated_Water_Resources_Management_(IWRM)]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|<font size="2">Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)</font>]]''' - [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|IWRM]] is based The papers are very close to daily practices, written purely on the understanding that water resources are an integral component basis of the ecosystem, a natural resourceexperience, insights and a social and economic good. Managers, whether materials developed within sanitation programmes in the government or private sectors, have to make difficult decisions on water allocation. More India 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 resourcesKenya.
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|[[Image:national flags.png|right|250px|]]We are proud to announce our new Akvopedia [[Translations]] program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, 3 three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil), Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese, with many more to come. Below you will find our newest See the upper right of each English page for the different language flags. Not all pages have been translated pagesyet.Our most popular translations are: <br>* The entire [[Image:national flags.png|none|300pxWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |Rainwater harvesting]]<br>'''New Translationsection in Hindi:''' Our [[Rainwater Harvestingवाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]] page has 6 new languages! See the upper right for the language flags.<br>'''New Translation:''' Our* The entire [[Business Development - Micro-financingWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in Spanish, French, Malayalam, and Korean: [[La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>'''New Translation:''' Our * Most of the [[3R (Recharge, Retention & Reuse)Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in Spanish and Malayalam with more coming soon: [[Captación de Agua de Lluvia]].
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|[[Image:Winona akvo2Jon.jpg|right|120px]]Do you have quality content that you would like to contribute to Akvopedia, but lack the time or resources to upload it? Akvopedia offers free limited editorial services and always appreciates suggestions and links to expand our WASH wiki. Please contact our editor Winona Azure Jon at winonajon[[Image:at symbol.jpg|12px]]akvo.org. Thank you for visiting!
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