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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 ARTICLE PAGEMalayalam Page: [[Communal Latrinesമഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം|<font size="32">Communal Latrinesമഴവെള്ള 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![[Image:latrinedecisions_main.png|leftright|100px|link=Communal LatrinesDecision & Assessment Tools]] 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.<br>* '''NEW PORTAL:''' [[Sustainability PortalDecision & Assessment Tools|<font size="32">'''Sustainability Portal'''Decision & Assessment Tools</font>]] [[File:sust ''' -Introducing a new Akvopedia portal icon.png|left|100px|link=Sustainability Portal]] [http://www.irc.nl/ IRC] and Akvopedia have teamed up to produce an all new [[Sustainability Portal|Sustainability Portal]] based on the Dutch WASH Alliance [http://www.washalliance.nl/fiets-strategy/ F.I.E.T.S. principles] of financial, institutional, environmental, technological, guide our users through critical water and social sustainabilitysanitation choices. Included are the 10-part The [[Sustainability Frameworks and Decision & Assessment Tools|Triple-S building blocks]] portal has 21 tools, some of which originate from IRC our other portals and other sustainability frameworks. With over 50 some brand new article pages and many more sustainability toolsto Akvopedia, slideshows, and videos..consolidated into the new portal for convenience. With so much information on the web coming from the thousands of water , sanitation and sanitation project members can now think about their hygiene (WASH system's longevity with confidence) organisations around the world, users need to know how best to navigate the information stream.<br>[[Image: IWRM photo.png|right|100px|link=Integrated_Water_Resources_Management_(IWRM)]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE:''' [[Community Based SavingsIntegrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|<font size="32">'''Community Based Savings'''Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)</font>]] ''' - [[Image:comm savings sm.pngIntegrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|left|100px|link=Community Based SavingsIWRM]] Community-is based saving is a microfinance model on the understanding that is considered to be an effective method for financing projects in sustainable sanitation and water management. This is resources are an effective method for saving integral component of the ecosystem, a small amount of money by organising or joining natural resource, and a saving group of up to 25 peoplesocial and economic good. These people might be colleaguesManagers, friends whether in the government or neighbours coming from the same communityprivate sectors, have to make difficult decisions on water allocation. The method is very simple More and easy more they have to implementapportion diminishing supplies between ever-increasing demands. Drivers such as demographic and climatic changes further increase the stress on water resources.
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