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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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{||<font size="4">The [[ImageSurvey Library]] is now live!</font><br>The Survey library contains two "shelves" of information:akvopedia_Surveystandards and surveys. Standards assist you in gathering, understanding, and using high quality data for decision making in all things water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) -Outcomes_Graphic_v1related.1-1Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, UNICEF, and SIASAR. For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is a popular standard for sanitation, drinking water, and others.|[[Image:Survey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|250px400px|link=httpSurvey Library|Photo://akvoCare.org/blog/akvopedia-how-are-we-doing/]]|}{|!<h2 style="margin:0; font -size="3:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">More news</h2>|-|[[Image:Tablet-Use-demo.jpg|right|200px|link=Handbook on Data Collection]]* '''Akvopedia New guide''': [[Handbook on Data Collection]]. The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to ensure high quality data is collected and maximum impact is achieved. The Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and implementing a data collection project, focusing on the development sector and including extra resources for more information. |-|[[Image:WHO_Guidelines_2018.png|right|200px|link=http://akvoapps.orgwho.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/blog274939/akvopedia9789241514705-how-are-we-doing/ Survey Resultseng.pdf]] are in!* '''Guide'''<: [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/font>This past spring9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, we conducted a survey major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and death among Akvopedia users children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Lack of access to better understand who suitable sanitation facilities is using the sitealso a major cause of risks and anxiety, how they use it especially for women and whygirls. This survey provided For all these reasons, sanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has been recognized as a sample to complement site metrics gathered by our web analytics systembasic human right. You can read more about the thinking behind the survey |-|[[httpImage://akvofinancing papers2.org/blog/9png|right|200px|link=Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-questions4]]* '''Featured article''': The [[Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-for4]] is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (in emerging markets) -akvopedians/ here]from financial inclusion to private funding and from micro insurance to climate financing. The survey was available papers are very close to daily practices, written purely on Akvopedia for roughly six weeks the basis of experience, insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and, during that time, we had a total of 544 responsesKenya.<br>

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|[[Image:Indian_waternational flags.jpgpng|100pxright|right250px|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: We are proud to announce our Akvopedia [[മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം|<font size="2">മഴവെള്ള സംഭരണം</font>Translations]]''' - program! We now have a new Indian started our language translator! He will be helping us in the Water Portal to translate pages into Malayalamprogram with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil. We hope this will enable our Indian users ), Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese, with many more to gain much water and sanitation knowledge and find valuable help and resources for their projectscome. We have started with a translation See the upper right of each English page for our [[Rainwater Harvesting]] page with the alternative different language links at the bottom of the pageflags. Not all pages have been translated yet. More to come!Our most popular translations are: <br>* The entire [[Image:decisions_main.pngWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |right|100px|link=Decision & Assessment ToolsRainwater harvesting]]* '''NEW PORTALsection in Hindi: [[Decision & Assessment Tools|<font size="2">Decision & Assessment Tools<वाटर पोर्टल /font>वर्षाजल संचयन]]''' -Introducing a new Akvopedia portal to guide our users through critical water and sanitation choices. <br>* The entire [[Decision & Assessment ToolsWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] 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. section in French: [[Image: IWRM photo.png|right|100px|link=Integrated_Water_Resources_Management_(IWRM)La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: Most of the [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |<font size="2">Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)</font>Rainwater harvesting]]''' - section in Spanish: [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)|IWRMCaptación de Agua de Lluvia]] 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.

|[[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!