Akvopedia structure

The following shows the current thinking how we want to structure the Akvopedia. If you have any comments then you can leave them in the Akvo Forum Akvopedia structure discussion.

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
• Sector wide approach (SWAP)
  • Project 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.