Featured Water solution
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Pepsi drip irrigation - Drip irrigation reduces water consumption but conventional drip technology is "high-tech" and expensive. To make drip irrigation affordable for small farmers, the Chapin bucket or IDE bucket and drum kits were developed. A bucket kit costing US$ 5 can irrigate 25 square meters and a drum kit five times as much. Based on this principle, farmers make a drip system made of plastic hoses that is normally used to package ice-lollies. More about Pepsi drip irrigation. Other water solutions.
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Featured Sanitation solution
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Co-composting - Composting is an aerobic process in which bacteria and other organisms feed on organic material and decompose it. The `recipe' of co-composting combines materials of high-carbon and high-nitrogen. Air is added to maintain aerobic conditions, either by turning the windrows or by forcing air through them. Adding excreta, especially urine, to household organics produces compost with a higher nutrient value (N-P-K) than compost produced only from kitchen and garden wastes.
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How to contribute to Akvopedia
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Featured organisation
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The ASN Bank, set up in 1960, is currently the largest sustainable bank in the Netherlands. It is an enterprise which aims to promote a sustainable society and is guided by that aim in its economic activities. As such, the bank applies strict criteria to its capital spending and portfolio investment. Read more about the ASN Bank. Other organisations.
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