Welcome, Bienvenue, Bienvenido to Akvopedia! Welcome to Akvopedia, the open water and sanitation resource that anyone can edit. The goal of Akvopedia is to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on smart and affordable technical solutions and effective approaches. At this moment, the Sanitation portal is well developed, the Water portal needs work, and the Approaches portal is just starting up. Akvopedia now contains 2,211 articles in English. Akvopedia structure Water Studio The Water Studio contains information on water collection, pumping and transportation, storage, treatment, and use of water. Sanitation Studio The Sanitation Studio contains information on toilets, collection, transportation, treatment, use of products, and hygiene. Approaches Studio The Approaches Studio contains information on product development, service delivery, finance, promotion, and support systems. If you would like to contribute to Akvopedia, you need an edit account. To get this, please send an email to m.t.westra [at] akvo.org. Getting an edit account What's happening now Project: Training on Rope Pump Manufacture, Madagascar. Training private sector operators in low-cost hand pump manufacture. Project partners: Practica Foundation, Aqua for All, and VSA. Result: 8 people trained during workshop, 480 people affected. Description: Training local workshops to manufacture family rope pumps to facilitate dissemination of package of low cost water drilling and pumping techs at both community and household levels by Voahary Salama. More news Featured content Read more >> 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 Mailing list - Participate in the Akvopedia mailing list. The Akvopedia mailing list is open to anyone who wants to discuss or follow the content work we are doing on the Akvopedia. Contact us to be added to the list. Editorial support Do you have good content that you would like to contribute, but you lack the time or the resources? Would you like to propose a new item, or do you need help with putting content in the pages? Akvopedia offers free editorial services, provided by our editor Mark Tiele Westra. Please contact him at m.t.westraakvo.org.