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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="4">Our new Hindi The [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater Harvesting sectionSurvey Library]]is now live!</font><br>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 all things water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) -related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. 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.|[[Image:rwh_hindiSurvey_library_promo.pngjpg|thumb|right|100px400px|link=Water Portal / Rainwater HarvestingSurvey Library|Photo: Care.org]]We now have our entire rainwater harvesting section translated into Hindi! This comprises 43 pages of water and sanitation solutions that include capturing rainwater whether from the air, surface or groundwater. We are going to continue to create Hindi translations for our top 100 pages, so check back soon for more Hindi pages.<br>|}{|-
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|[[Image:india water portal newsTablet-Use-demo.pngjpg|right|100px200px|link=News - IndiaHandbook on Data Collection]]* '''New portalguide''': In cooperation with [http://www[Handbook on Data Collection]].indiawaterportalThe 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.org/ India Water Portal], we now have 165 new pages all about news from India! The articles cover popular topics of water Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and sanitation (WASH) plus many more, including food securityimplementing a data collection project, climate change, and emergency WASH. This is focusing on the beginning of our new News section that will soon include Africa, Latin America development sector and including extra resources for more of Asiainformation.
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|[[Image:Civil_society_food_securityWHO_Guidelines_2018.jpgpng|right|100px200px|link=Food & Nutrition Security Portalhttp://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf]]* '''New portalGuide''': Thanks to our partnership with [http://wwwapps.iccowho.nlint/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/ ICCO Corporation274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, we have a new 31 page [[Food & Nutrition Security Portal]]! Food from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and Nutrition security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to fooddiarrhea, which is safe a major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and consumed death among children under five years in sufficient quantity low- and quality middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to meet their dietary needs and food preferencesseveral neglected tropical diseases, and as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is supported by an environment also a major cause of adequate sanitation, health services risks and careanxiety, allowing especially for a healthy women and active life (CFS)girls. We welcome this new sector of knowledge to our water and For all these reasons, sanitation base in Akvopedia, as they are very closely linked that prevents disease and go hand-in-hand in eliminating poverty ensures privacy and defending the dignity has been recognized as a basic human right to clean water, sanitation and plentiful food.
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|[[Image:internal_space1financing papers2.png|right|100px200px|link=Accessible WASH DesignFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''Our new [[Accessible WASH Design]] pagesFeatured article''' are useful for disabled, elderly, the sick: The [[Financing Sanitation, and children Paper Series I- all those who need special help with accessing and using 4]] is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation facilities. It is made for use by staff, working directly with communities - e.g. health workers and community volunteers working with disabled and older people and their families (in rural areas of subemerging markets) -Saharan Africa, from financial inclusion to private funding and beyondfrom micro insurance to climate financing. Most of the ideas The papers are suitable for disabled and older peoplevery close to daily practices, but are not only for them. As we get olderwritten purely on the basis of experience, many of us find it increasingly difficult to squat insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and balance, or we might be injured or sickKenya.
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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 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 [[Rooftop rainwater Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseHindi: [[屋顶雨水收集वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <br>* '''New Translation:''' Our The entire [[WASH Environmental Sustainability AssessmentWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseFrench: [[WASH环境可持续性评估La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* '''New Translation:''' Our Most of the [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map| Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseSpanish: [[雨水收集的地理信息系统地图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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