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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:Harvested_oil_palm_fruit_bunches.jpg|none|450px|link=Sustainable Oil Palm Farming]]<font size="4">The [[Sustainable Oil Palm FarmingSurvey Library]] is now onlinelive!</font><br>Sustainable intensification The Survey library contains two "shelves" of information: standards and surveys. Standards assist you in smallholder oil palm plantations focuses on achieving good yields gathering, understanding, and profitsusing high quality data for decision making in all things water, sanitation, while maintaining soil fertilityhygiene (WASH) -related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, minimising erosionUNICEF, maintaining and SIASAR. For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is a popular standard for sanitation, drinking water quality, controlling pests, diseases and weeds through integrated pest management and using agrochemicals safely and in the smallest possible amountsothers.|[[Image:Survey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org]]<br>|}{|-

|[[Image:rwh_hindiTablet-Use-demo.pngjpg|right|100px200px|link=वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयनHandbook on Data Collection]]* '''New sectionguide''': [[वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन | Hindi Rainwater HarvestingHandbook on Data Collection]]. We now have our entire rainwater harvesting section translated into Hindi! This comprises 43 pages of water The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to ensure high quality data is collected and sanitation solutions that include capturing rainwater whether from the air, surface or groundwatermaximum impact is achieved. We are going The Handbook covers vital elements to continue to create Hindi translations for our top 100 pagesconsider when designing and implementing a data collection project, so check back soon focusing on the development sector and including extra resources for more Hindi pagesinformation.

|[[Image:india water portal newsWHO_Guidelines_2018.png|right|100px200px|link=News http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705- Indiaeng.pdf]]* '''New portalGuide''': In cooperation with [http://wwwapps.indiawaterportalwho.orgint/ India Water Portaliris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, we now have 165 new pages all about news from India! preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The articles cover popular topics lack of water safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, a major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and death among children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation (WASH) plus many morealso contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, including food security, climate changeas well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is also a major cause of risks and anxiety, especially for women and emergency WASHgirls. This is the beginning of our new News section For all these reasons, sanitation that will soon include Africa, Latin America prevents disease and ensures privacy and more of Asiadignity has been recognized as a basic human right.

|[[Image:Civil_society_food_securityfinancing papers2.jpgpng|right|100px200px|link=Food & Nutrition Security PortalFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''New portalFeatured article''': Thanks to our partnership with The [[http://www.icco.nl/ ICCO Corporation]Financing Sanitation, we have a new 31 page [[Food & Nutrition Security PortalPaper Series I-4]]! Food and Nutrition security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to food, which is safe and consumed in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, and is supported by an environment a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of adequate sanitation, health services and care, allowing for a healthy and active life (CFSin emerging markets). We welcome this new sector of knowledge - from financial inclusion to our water private funding and sanitation base in Akvopedia, as they from micro insurance to climate financing. The papers are very closely linked and go hand-in-hand in eliminating poverty and defending close to daily practices, written purely on the right to clean waterbasis of experience, insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and plentiful foodKenya.

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!