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|[[Image:akvopedia_Survey-Outcomes_Graphic_v1.1-1.jpg|right|200px|]]<font size="3">'''NEW Malayalam Page: [[മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം]]'''</font>[[Image:Indian_water.jpg|250px|right|Source: Akvopedia [http://business.rediffakvo.com/slide-show/2010/julorg/07blog/slide-show-1-what-is-water-harvestingakvopedia-how-it-canare-curbwe-water-shortage.htm business.rediff.com]]doing/ Survey Results]are in!'''</font>We now have This past spring, we conducted a new Indian language translator! He will be helping us in survey among Akvopedia users to better understand who is using the Water Portal to translate pages into Malayalam, Hindisite, how they use it and Tamilwhy. We hope this will enable our Indian users Akvopedia is a free-to gain much -use online resource for finding and sharing knowledge about water and , sanitation knowledge and find valuable help and resources for their hygiene projects. We have started with This survey provided a translation for sample to complement site metrics gathered by our web analytics system. You can read more about the thinking behind the survey [[Rainwater Harvesting]http://akvo.org/blog/9-questions-for-akvopedians/ here] page with the alternative language links at the bottom of the page. More to come!
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| [[Image:Indian_water.jpg|100px|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]]]* '''NEW Malayalam Page: [[മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം|<font size="2">മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം</font>]]''' - 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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* '''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.
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* '''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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