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Welcome to Akvopedia, the a free, open -sourced water and , sanitation & hygiene resource (in addition to food security knowledge) that [[How to contribute|anyone can edit]]. We strive to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on Here you will find smart and affordable technical solutions technologies and effective approachesin rural or urban settings. Project teams can learn more about financing, constructing, and maintaining a project in order to keep it functioning and stable for the long term. Some pages are translated in up to 9 languages (upper right of each page may have language flags), as we are increasing new translations continually. We also have the Google translator on each page. It will translate any English page into more than 90 languages. It cannot translate our hand-translated pages, only the English versions of those pages. Akvopedia now contains [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles primarily in English, including some in French and Spanish. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by [http://akvo.org/ Akvo Foundation].

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{|[[Image:india water portal news.png|right|250px|link=News - India]]<font size="4">New portal: The [[News - India | News - IndiaSurvey Library]]is now live!</font><br><br>In cooperation with [httpThe Survey library contains two "shelves" of information://wwwstandards and surveys.indiawaterportal.org/ India Water Portal]Standards assist you in gathering, understanding, we now have 165 new pages and using high quality data for decision making in all about news from India! The articles cover popular topics of things water and , sanitation , hygiene (WASH) plus many more, including food security-related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, climate changeUNICEF, and emergency WASHSIASAR. This For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is the beginning of our new News section that will soon include Africa a popular standard for sanitation, drinking water, Latin America and more of Asiaothers.|[[Image:Survey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org]]<br>|}{|-

|[[Image:Civil_society_food_securityTablet-Use-demo.jpg|right|100px200px|link=Food & Nutrition Security PortalHandbook on Data Collection]]* '''New portalguide''': Thanks to our partnership with [http://www.icco.nl/ ICCO Corporation], we have a new 31 page [[Food & Nutrition Security PortalHandbook on Data Collection]]! Food and Nutrition security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access . The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to food, which ensure high quality data is safe and consumed in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, collected and maximum impact is supported by an environment of adequate sanitation, health services and care, allowing for a healthy and active life (CFS)achieved. We welcome this new sector of knowledge The Handbook covers vital elements to our water consider when designing and sanitation base in Akvopediaimplementing a data collection project, as they are very closely linked and go hand-in-hand in eliminating poverty and defending focusing on the right to clean water, sanitation development sector and plentiful foodincluding extra resources for more information.

|[[Image:internal_space1WHO_Guidelines_2018.png|right|100px200px|link=Accessible WASH Designhttp://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf]]* '''Our new [[Accessible WASH Design]] pagesGuide''' are useful for disabled, elderly, the sick, and children : [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705- all those who need special help with accessing eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and using Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation facilities. It is made essential for use by staffhealth, working directly with communities from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well- e.gbeing. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, a major public health workers concern and community volunteers working with disabled a leading cause of disease and older people death among children under five years in low- and their families in rural areas of submiddle-Saharan Africaincome countries; poor sanitation also contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, and beyondas well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Most Lack of the ideas are access to suitable for disabled sanitation facilities is also a major cause of risks and older peopleanxiety, but are not only especially for themwomen and girls. As we get olderFor all these reasons, many of us find it increasingly difficult to squat sanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and balance, or we might be injured or sickdignity has been recognized as a basic human right.

||[[Image:eawag compendium coverfinancing papers2.png|right|100px200px|link=http://www.eawag.ch/forschung/sandec/publikationen/sesp/dl/Compendium_2nd_Ed_Lowres_1p.pdfFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''Updated!! Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, 2nd EditionFeatured article''': The entire [[Financing Sanitation Portal, Paper Series I-4]] is now updated with the most current information a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (in emerging markets) - from the new compendium financial inclusion to private funding and from [http://wwwmicro insurance to climate financing.sandec.ch/index_EN Sandec/EAWAG]. It contains several brand new topics such as Pre-treatment TechnologiesThe papers are very close to daily practices, Settlerwritten purely on the basis of experience, insights and the Imhoff tank. Plus redefinitions for many materials developed within sanitation products. Biomass is now included a lot as well. Plus some newer versions of treatment systems that mention biogas programmes in India and blackwater more frequently than the 1st editionKenya.

We are proud to announce our new Akvopedia [[Translations]] program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, 3 three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil), Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese, with many more to come. See the upper right of each English page for the different language flags. Not all pages have been translated yet.Our most popular translations are: <br>* '''New Translation:''' Our The entire [[Rooftop rainwater Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseHindi: [[屋顶雨水收集वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <br>* '''New Translation:''' Our The entire [[WASH Environmental Sustainability AssessmentWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseFrench: [[WASH环境可持续性评估La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* '''New Translation:''' Our Most of the [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map| Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseSpanish: [[雨水收集的地理信息系统地图Captación de Agua de Lluvia]].

|[[Image:Winona akvo2Jon.jpg|right|120px]]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 Jon at winonajon[[Image:at symbol.jpg|12px]]akvo.org. Thank you for visiting!