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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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{|[[Image:sustainable sanitation.jpg|250px|right|Source: [http://www.pseau.org/outils/biblio/index.php?vue_pgm_o_tout=1&tri1=titre&pgmpseau_id=37&l=fr&langue=en&operateur_titre_contenant=%2B&motclef%5B%5D=129&vuepp=3&autosubmit=1 www.pseau.org]]]<font size="34">'''70 Sustainable Sanitation Documents from Pseau.org '''The [[Survey Library]] is now live!</font><br>We now have links The Survey library contains two "shelves" of information: standards and surveys. Standards assist you in gathering, understanding, and using high quality data for decision making in our [[Sustainability Portal]]all things water, sanitation, column 5 hygiene (Social SustainabilityWASH) for 70 new documents in both French -related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, UNICEF, and EnglishSIASAR. These colorfully For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is illustrate a variety of handwashing and popular standard for sanitation methods that include topics such as schools , drinking water, and genderothers. Great for teaching kids! All links go to the |[[httpImage://wwwSurvey_library_promo.pseaujpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org/outils/biblio/index.php?vue_pgm_o_tout=1&tri1=titre&pgmpseau_id=37&l=fr&langue=en&operateur_titre_contenant]]|}{|!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%2B&motclef%5B%5D=129&vuepp=3&autosubmit=1 pseau; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.org] site where you can search by topic, country, or target audience2em 0.4em;">More news<br/h2>
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|[[Image:Rainwater_harvesting_mapWHO_Guidelines_2018.png|right|100px200px|link=http://akvopediaapps.orgwho.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/wiki274939/Rainwater_Harvesting_GIS_Map9789241514705-eng.pdf]]* '''NEW RWH TOOLS: [[Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map | Make a personalized GIS rainwater harvesting map]]Guide''' - We have teamed up with : [http://wwwapps.rainfoundationwho.orgint/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/ RAIN274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018] . Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to create three new rainwater harvesting (RWH) tools in Akvopediaimproving and maintaining mental and social well-being. One The lack of these is called the [[Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map]]. You can follow three steps safe sanitation contributes to create diarrhea, a major public health concern and a RWH map to see optimal places leading cause of rainwater collection disease and death among children under five years in your arealow- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. The other tools, [[Rain Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is Gain Tool]] also a major cause of risks and [[WASH Environmental Sustainability Assessment]]anxiety, help you to both assess your water needs/supply especially for women and make sure your WASH project is environmentally sustainablegirls. For all these reasons, respectivelysanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has been recognized as a basic human right.
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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 sustainable financing of which originate sanitation (in emerging markets) - from our other portals financial inclusion to private funding and some brand new from micro insurance to climate financing. The papers are very close to Akvopediadaily practices, consolidated into the new portal for convenience. With so much information written purely on the web coming from the thousands basis of waterexperience, insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and hygiene (WASH) organisations around the world, users need to know how best to navigate the information streamKenya.
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|[[Image:national flags.png|right|200px250px|]]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. See the upper right of our each English page for the different language flags.Not all pages have been translated yet. Our most popular translations are: <br>* '''New Translation:''' Our The entire [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting| Rainwater harvesting]] page has 6 new languages! section in Hindi: [[वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <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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