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|<font size="3">'''NEW PORTALMalayalam Page: [[Decision & Assessment Toolsമഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം]]'''</font>[[Image:Indian_water.jpg|200px|right|Source: [http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/07/slide-show-1-what-is-water-harvesting-how-it-can-curb-water-shortage.htm business.rediff.com]]]We now have a new Indian language translator! He will be helping us in the Water Portal to translate pages into Malayalam, Hindi, and Tamil. We hope this will enable our Indian users to gain much water and sanitation knowledge and find valuable help and resources for their projects. We have started with a translation for our [[Rainwater harvesting]] page with the alternative language links at the bottom of the page. More to come!
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[[Image:decisions_main.png|none|500px|link=Decision & Assessment Tools]]<br>Introducing a new Akvopedia portal to guide our users through critical water and sanitation choices. The [[Decision & Assessment Tools]] portal has 21 tools, some of which originate from our other portals and some brand new to Akvopedia, consolidated into the new portal for convenience. With so much information on the web coming from the thousands of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) organisations around the world, users need to know how best to navigate the information stream.
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* '''NEW PORTAL: [[Decision & Assessment Tools|<font size="2">Decision & Assessment Tools</font>]]''' -Introducing a new Akvopedia portal to guide our users through critical water and sanitation choices. The [[Decision & Assessment Tools]] portal has 21 tools, some of which originate from our other portals and some brand new to Akvopedia, consolidated into the new portal for convenience. With so much information on the web coming from the thousands of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) organisations around the world, users need to know how best to navigate the information stream.
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* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|<font size="2">Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)</font>]]''' - [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|IWRM]] is based on the understanding that water resources are an integral component of the ecosystem, a natural resource, and a social and economic good. Managers, whether in the government or private sectors, have to make difficult decisions on water allocation. More and more they have to apportion diminishing supplies between ever-increasing demands. Drivers such as demographic and climatic changes further increase the stress on water resources.
* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: [[Communal Latrines|<font size="2">Communal Latrines</font>]]''' - This article covers the topic of communal latrines, also called institutional or school latrines. Much of the material in this article is based on project successes in the Sudan. This is a portion of the document of Technical Guidelines, outlining best practices for the development of the 14 types of water supply and sanitation facilities in the Sudan. Several of them are communal (multi-user) latrines.
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* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE:''' [[Community Based Savings|<font size="2">'''Community Based Savings'''</font>]] - Community-based saving is a microfinance model that is considered to be an effective method for financing projects in sustainable sanitation and water management. This is an effective method for saving a small amount of money by organising or joining a saving group of up to 25 people. These people might be colleagues, friends or neighbours coming from the same community. The method is very simple and easy to implement.
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