Changes

{|style="border-spacing:8px; margin:0px -8px;"|class="MainPageBG" style="width:55%; border:1px solid #E3E7EC; background:#fffffff7f5f7; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"|{|width="100%" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top; background:#fffffff7f5f7;"! <h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353999999; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Welcome, bienvenue and bienvenido to Akvopedia!</h2>

{| style="width:100%; background:#f5faff; cellpadding="8" cellspacing="50"; margin-top:+0.9em; "|style="width:56%; color:#000; background:#fffffff7f5f7;"|<!--

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].

!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Sustainability Portal - <font color=#FF0000>NEW!</font></h2>

|-!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Decision & Assessment Tools</h2>|-|<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.

|}-!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Food & Nutrition Security Portal</h2>|-|<!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.!|-!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Sustainable Oil Palm Farming</h2>|-|<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.!|} <!-----------Featured articleWhat's happening now, More News, Translated pages, Editorial support, Getting started-------------------->

{||<font size="34">The [[Survey 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'''NEW ARTICLE PAGEve 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:Survey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org]]|}{|!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">More news</h2>|-|[[Water Reuse / GreywaterImage:Tablet-Use-demo.jpg|right|200px|link=Handbook on Data Collection]]* '''New guide'</font>'': [[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. |-|[[Image:Water_reuse2WHO_Guidelines_2018.jpgpng|right|200px|link=Water Reuse http://apps.who.int/iris/ Greywaterbitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf]]Water reuse can include reusing water from many sources* '''Guide''': [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Sometimes it Safe sanitation is used water essential for health, from bathing or dishwashingpreventing 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 other times it is managing agricultural runoff. It may also be keeping/extending the water you have death among children under five years in reservoirs or groundwater low- and taking measures middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to reduce evaporation all in support several neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Lack of reuse. Reusing waste water access to suitable sanitation facilities is also very popular worldwidea major cause of risks and anxiety, especially for irrigationwomen and girls. Other names include “water recyclingFor all these reasons,” “water purification,” “reclaimed water,” “recycled water,” “reuse water,” sanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and “repurified waterdignity 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>

| [[Image: IWRM photonational flags.png|right|100px250px|link=Integrated_Water_Resources_Management_(IWRM)]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: We are proud to announce our Akvopedia [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|<font size="2">Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)</font>Translations]]''' - [[Integrated Water Resources Management program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (IWRMHindi, Malayalam, and Tamil)|IWRM]] is based on the understanding that water resources are an integral component of the ecosystem, a natural resourceKorean, and a social and economic good. ManagersChinese, whether in the government or private sectorsIndonesian, have to make difficult decisions on water allocation. More and Japanese, with many more they have to apportion diminishing supplies between ever-increasing demandscome. Drivers such as demographic and climatic changes further increase See the upper right of each English page for the stress on water resourcesdifferent language flags. Not all pages have been translated yet. Our most popular translations are: <br>* The entire [[Image:latrine.pngWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |right|100px|link=Communal LatrinesRainwater harvesting]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGEsection in Hindi: [[Communal Latrines|वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <font size="2"br>Communal Latrines<* The entire [[Water Portal /font>Rainwater Harvesting | 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 SudanFrench: [[La collecte des eaux de pluie]]. This is a portion <br>* Most 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.[[File:Community savings.jpgWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |right|100px|link=Community Based SavingsRainwater harvesting]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGEsection in Spanish:''' [[Community Based Savings|<font size="2">'''Community Based Savings'''</font>Captación de Agua de Lluvia]] - Community-based saving is a microfinance model that is considered to be an effective method for financing projects in sustainable sanitation and water management. This is an effective method for saving a small amount of money by organising or joining a saving group of up to 25 people. These people might be colleagues, friends or neighbours coming from the same community. The method is very simple and easy to implement. 

|[[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!