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New Portal: Community Exchange - Rainwater Harvesting

Ever wonder what other rainwater harvesting projects are like? The challenges they face, the advice people have. Now you can explore more in-depth about rainwater harvesting implementation through our new Community Exchange - Rainwater Harvesting, a discussion forum from RAIN and RWSN shared from their Drgoups site. Here you will find shared experiences and best practices on rainwater harvesting technology and management.

Keep in mind, we encourage everyone to add to the conversation! Just select the "Discussion" tab in Akvopedia at the top of the topic page you want to add to, and type your comments. Some of these discussions will be minimally edited & added to the general conversation of a topic, if found to provide additional, useful information. Photos of actual projects, manuals people used and benefitted from, plus local connections to supplies, and more! Expect this portal to expand in the coming months as more conversations get added.

• Updated!! Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, 2nd Edition: The entire Sanitation Portal is now updated with the most current information from the new compendium from Sandec/EAWAG. It contains several brand new topics such as Pre-treatment Technologies, Settler, and the Imhoff tank. Plus redefinitions for many sanitation products. Biomass is now included a lot as well. Plus some newer versions of treatment systems that mention biogas and blackwater more frequently than the 1st edition.

• 70 Sustainable Sanitation Documents from Pseau.org : We now have links in our Sustainability Portal, column 5 (Social Sustainability) for 70 new documents in both French and English. These colorfully illustrate a variety of handwashing and sanitation methods that include topics such as schools and gender. Great for teaching kids! All links go to the pseau.org site where you can search by topic, country, or target audience.

• NEW RWH TOOLS: Make a personalized GIS rainwater harvesting map - We have teamed up with RAIN to create three new rainwater harvesting (RWH) tools in Akvopedia. One of these is called the Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map. You can follow three steps to create a RWH map to see optimal places of rainwater collection in your area. The other tools, Rain is Gain Tool and WASH Environmental Sustainability Assessment, help you to both assess your water needs/supply and make sure your WASH project is environmentally sustainable, respectively.

We are proud to announce our new Akvopedia Translations program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, 3 Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil), Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, with many more to come. See the upper right of our English page for the different language flags.

• New Translation: Our Rainwater Harvesting page has 6 new languages!
  
• New Translation: Our Business Development - Micro-financing page is now in Spanish, French, Malayalam, and Korean.
  
• New Translation: Our 3R (Recharge, Retention & Reuse) page is now in Spanish and Malayalam with more coming soon.

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 at winonaakvo.org. Thank you for visiting!