Welcome, bienvenue and bienvenido to Akvopedia! Welcome to Akvopedia, the open water and sanitation resource that anyone can edit. We strive to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on smart and affordable technical solutions and effective approaches. Akvopedia now contains 2,211 articles primarily in English, including some in French and Spanish. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by Akvo Foundation. Water Portal The Water Portal contains information on water collection, pumping and transportation, storage, treatment, and use of water. Sanitation Portal The Sanitation Portal contains information on toilets, collection, transportation, treatment, use of products, hygiene, and training materials. Finance Portal The Finance Portal contains information on the costs needed to finance, how to finance these costs, and how to monitor finance. Sustainability Portal The Sustainability Portal contains information on numerous sustainability frameworks, tools, and methods, using the F.I.E.T.S approach. 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. Food & Nutrition Security Portal - NEW! 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. What's happening now Our new Hindi Rainwater Harvesting section 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. More news New portal: In cooperation with India Water Portal, we now have 165 new pages all about news from India! The articles cover popular topics of water and sanitation (WASH) plus many more, including food security, climate change, and emergency WASH. This is the beginning of our new News section that will soon include Africa, Latin America and more of Asia. New portal: Thanks to our partnership with ICCO Corporation, we have a new 31 page Food & Nutrition Security Portal! Food and Nutrition security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to food, which is safe and consumed in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, and is supported by an environment of adequate sanitation, health services and care, allowing for a healthy and active life (CFS). We welcome this new sector of knowledge to our water and sanitation base in Akvopedia, as they are very closely linked and go hand-in-hand in eliminating poverty and defending the right to clean water, sanitation and plentiful food. Our new Accessible WASH Design pages are useful for disabled, elderly, the sick, and children - all those who need special help with accessing and using 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 sub-Saharan Africa, and beyond. Most of the ideas are suitable for disabled and older people, but are not only for them. As we get older, many of us find it increasingly difficult to squat and balance, or we might be injured or sick. Translated pages 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, 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. New Translation: Our Rooftop rainwater harvesting page is now in Chinese: 屋顶雨水收集. New Translation: Our WASH Environmental Sustainability Assessment page is now in Chinese: WASH环境可持续性评估. New Translation: Our Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map page is now in Chinese: 雨水收集的地理信息系统地图. Contributing to Akvopedia Share your news and knowledge on water and sanitation by contributing articles to the Akvopedia. We've used the same conventions as the well-known online resource Wikipedia, so adding and editing articles is quick and easy to learn. This graphical guide will get you started; more detailed information about editing wiki articles is available in the help pages: Help:Contents Editorial support 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!