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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 - NEW! Decision & Assessment Tools contain several tools, assessments, or kits that aid in the implementation of water and sanitation projects in an easier way. What's happening now Céline Gest, our French translator of the month Our favorite translator of the month, Céline Gest! Since our translation program began last summer, we've had the honor and privilege of several new translating volunteers to help us transform Akvopedia into a truly global online WASH encyclopedia. We now have Spanish, French, some Malayalam, Tamil & Hindi, and some Chinese and Korean pages, and more coming in all the time. Céline joined us as a French translator, and has been doing a beautiful job on our Water Portal. Allowing our pages to reach and benefit French speakers from around the world. Céline has shared this about her work: "For a translator recently graduated, translating for Akvopedia gives the chance of gaining knowledge and specializing on water and sanitation issues, two key themes in today’s world, and thus to acquire valuable experience. This is also an opportunity to participate fully in the activities of Akvopedia providing a useful work for a large community!" (In French) "Pour une traductrice récemment diplômée, traduire pour Akvopedia offre la possibilité d’enrichir ses connaissances et de se spécialiser sur l’eau et les questions sanitaires, des thèmes porteurs dans le monde actuel, et donc d’acquérir une expérience appréciable . C’est également l’occasion de participer pleinement aux activités d’Akvopedia en fournissant un travail utile à une large communauté!" If you are interested in Céline Gest's services as a French translator, make an inquiry to us at winonaakvo.org. Thank you Céline! More news Updated!! Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, 2nd Edition: The entire Sanitation Portal is now updated with the most current information from the new compendium from Sandec/EAWAG. It contains several brand new topics such as Pre-treatment Technologies, Settler, and the Imhoff tank. Plus redefinitions for many sanitation products. Biomass is now included a lot as well. Plus some newer versions of treatment systems that mention biogas and blackwater more frequently than the 1st edition. 70 Sustainable Sanitation Documents from Pseau.org : We now have links in our Sustainability Portal, column 5 (Social Sustainability) for 70 new documents in both French and English. These colorfully illustrate a variety of handwashing and sanitation methods that include topics such as schools and gender. Great for teaching kids! All links go to the pseau.org site where you can search by topic, country, or target audience. NEW RWH TOOLS: Make a personalized GIS rainwater harvesting map - We have teamed up with RAIN to create three new rainwater harvesting (RWH) tools in Akvopedia. One of these is called the Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map. You can follow three steps to create a RWH map to see optimal places of rainwater collection in your area. The other tools, Rain is Gain Tool and WASH Environmental Sustainability Assessment, help you to both assess your water needs/supply and make sure your WASH project is environmentally sustainable, respectively. 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, and Japanese, with many more to come. See the upper right of our English page for the different language flags. New Translation: Our Rainwater Harvesting page has 6 new languages! New Translation: Our Business Development - Micro-financing page is now in Spanish, French, Malayalam, and Korean. New Translation: Our 3R (Recharge, Retention & Reuse) page is now in Spanish and Malayalam with more coming soon. 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!