Akvopedia structure thoughts 2008

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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.